A Künstlerroman (; plural -ane), meaning "artist's novel" in English, is a narrative about an artist's growth to maturity. It could be classified as a sub-category of Bildungsroman: a coming-of-age novel. According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, one way a Künstlerroman may differ from a Bildungsroman is its ending, where a Künstlerroman hero rejects the everyday life, but a Bildungsroman hero settles for being an ordinary citizen. According to Oxford Reference, the difference may lie in a longer view across the Künstlerroman hero's whole life, not just their childhood years. A novel specifically
A Künstlerroman (; plural -ane), meaning "artist's novel" in English, is a narrative about an artist's growth to maturity. It could be classified as a sub-category of Bildungsroman: a coming-of-age novel. According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, one way a Künstlerroman may differ from a Bildungsroman is its ending, where a Künstlerroman hero rejects the everyday life, but a Bildungsroman hero settles for being an ordinary citizen. According to Oxford Reference, the difference may lie in a longer view across the Künstlerroman hero's whole life, not just their childhood years. A novel specifically about a female artist is a Künstlerinroman.
==Examples by language== ===German=== Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1795 ''Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship'' 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 Tonio Kröger (1903), and Doctor Faustus (1947) Jakob Wassermann's 1915 Das Gänsemännchen Rainer Maria Rilke's 1910 The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Eduard Mörike's 1856 Mozart on the way to Prague
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