Künstlerroman
A Künstlerroman (German pronunciation: [ˈkʏnstlɐ.ʁoˌmaːn]; plural -ane), meaning "artist's novel" in German, is a narrative about an artist's growth to maturity.[1][2] It may be classified as a specific sub-genre of Bildungsroman;[3] such a work, usually a novel, tends to depict the conflicts of a sensitive youth against the values of a middle and upper class society of his or her time.
Examples
- In German
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1774 The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Ludwig Tieck's 1798 Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen
- Novalis's 1802 Heinrich von Ofterdingen
- Hermann Hesse's Demian (1919) and Klingsor's Last Summer (1920)
- Thomas Mann's Death in Venice (1912), Tonio Kröger (1903), and Doktor Faustus (1947)
- Jakob Wassermann's 1915 Das Gänsemännchen
- Rainer Maria Rilke's 1910 The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
- In English
- 1805 William Wordsworth's "The Prelude"
- 1848 Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- 1850 Charles Dickens' David Copperfield
- 1852 Herman Melville's Pierre: or, The Ambiguities
- 1856 Elizabeth Barret Browning's Aurora Leigh
- 1875 Henry James's Roderick Hudson
- 1890 Henry James's The Tragic Muse
- 1909 Jack London Martin Eden
- 1913 D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers
- 1914 James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- 1915 W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage
- 1915 Willa Cather's Song of the Lark
- 1918 Wyndham Lewis's "Tarr"
- 1920 F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise
- 1927 Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
- 1928 Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness
- 1929 Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel
- 1933 Malcolm Lowry's Ultramarine
- 1936 George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying
- 1939 John Fante's "Ask the Dust"
- 1945 Richard Wright's Black Boy
- 1947 W.O. Mitchell's Who Has Seen the Wind
- 1955 William Gaddis's The Recognitions
- 1961 Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy
- 1970 Patrick White's The Vivisector
- 1971 Alice Munro's "Lives of Girls and Women"
- 1972 Chaim Potok's My Name is Asher Lev
- 1973 Milan Kundera's Life Is Elsewhere
- 1974 Margaret Laurence's The Diviners
- 1988 Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye
- 2006 Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
- 2006 Mark Stewart's Passing Strange
- 2010 Eileen Myles's Inferno (A Poet's Novel)
- 2010 Wena Poon's "Alex y Robert", the Asian American Künstlerroman
Alasdair Gray's Lanark: A Life in Four Books consists of four books arranged in the order 3, 1, 2, 4; books 1 and 2 constituting a Künstlerroman. In John Dos Passos' U.S.A. trilogy, the Camera Eye sections add up to a modernist autobiographical Künstlerroman. John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse is a collection of short stories that are often read as a postmodernist Künstlerroman.
- In French
- 1904–1905 Romain Rolland's Jean-Christophe
- 1913 Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time[4] [5]
- In Italian
- Gabriele D'Annunzio's Il Piacere, Le Vergini Delle Rocce and Il Fuoco
- 1975 Gavino Ledda's My Father, My Master (Padre Padrone)
- In Icelandic
- Halldór Laxness's World Light
- In Russian
- In Croatian
- 1932 Miroslav Krleža's The Return of Filip Latinovicz
- In Malayalam
References
- ↑ Werlock, James P. (2010) The Facts on File companion to the American short story, Volume 2, p.387
- ↑ A Studio of One's Own: Fictional Women Painters and the Art of Fiction by Roberta White (page 13) published 2005 by Rosemont Publishing & Printing Crops. Accessed Via Google Books August 13, 2013.
- ↑ Germaine de Staël in Germany: Gender and Literary Authority by Judith E. Martin (page 128) 2001 Fairleigh & Dickinson University Press
- ↑ John Neary Something and nothingness: the fiction of John Updike & John Fowles p.54
- ↑ Gilles Deleuze. "Marcel Proust et les signes". Paris: PUF, 1964]