bildungsroman

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character, usually from childhood to maturity.
    — English speakers are more hospitable to fiction in translation, and yet when was the last time you heard someone mention “Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship” or “Elective Affinities,” Goethe’s long fictions? These books have a good claim to have founded two of the major genres of the modern novel—respectively, the Bildungsroman and the novel of adultery.

词形变化

bildungsromans plural bildungsromane plural Bildungsroman alternative

词源

Borrowed from German Bildungsroman, from Bildung (“education, formation”) + -s- + Roman (“novel”).
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