Please nominate the Bildungsroman novel you would like to read in December by November 1st.
Please nominate the Bildungsroman novel you would like to read in December by November 1st.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I will nominate The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Hmm....Wao does sound good.
But for the sake of this is an poll - I will throw
"The Glass Bead Game" by Hesse into the mix if I may.
I wrote a poem on a leaf and it blew away...
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. Can't go wrong with Goethe.
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Nominations so far:
1. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
2. The Glass Bead Game by Hesse
3. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Goethe
4. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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It can only loosely be described as a bildungsroman, but I'm going to nominate anyway.
Orlando: a Biography by Virginia Woolf.
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
What the hell does "bildungsroman" mean?
It is basically a coming of age novelOriginally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
You can read the details about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildungsroman
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Literally, it's an "education novel" - tracking a youth for ignorance to maturity via some form of education. Of course since its development (popularized by Goethe I believe) it has taken on some variations.
I wrote a poem on a leaf and it blew away...
Glad someone asked that!
I had to look it up too.
I've got Hesse's The Glass Bead Game, and I've wanted to read it for a while. I think I'll nominate Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.
My daughter is in Japan at this moment on a school exchange. (Lucky devil - I went to Northumberland with the school. Not that there's anything wrong with Northumberland - it's very underrated, but it's not apan.) So I'll go with the Japanese flow.
Even though it's considered a children's book, I would like to nominate Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
WOW! That sounds amazing!! I think I only got as far as Granada Studios tour!
Would On the Road by Jack Kerouac count as being bildungsroman?
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