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A Künstlerroman (German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
: "artist's novel") is a specific sub-genre of Bildungsroman
Bildungsroman

A bildungsroman is a novelistic genre that arose during the German Enlightenment, in which the author presents the psychological, moral and social shaping of the personality of a protagonist....
; it is a novel about an artist
Artist

The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art....
's growth to maturity. Such novels often depict the struggles of a sensitive youth against the values of a bourgeois society of his or her time.

Famous German-language
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
 Künstlerromane include:







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A Künstlerroman (German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
: "artist's novel") is a specific sub-genre of Bildungsroman
Bildungsroman

A bildungsroman is a novelistic genre that arose during the German Enlightenment, in which the author presents the psychological, moral and social shaping of the personality of a protagonist....
; it is a novel about an artist
Artist

The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art....
's growth to maturity. Such novels often depict the struggles of a sensitive youth against the values of a bourgeois society of his or her time.

Famous German-language
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
 Künstlerromane include:
  • Hermann Hesse
    Hermann Hesse

    Hermann Hesse was a German-Switzerland poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known works include Steppenwolf , Siddhartha , and The Glass Bead Game which explore an individual's search for spirituality outside society....
    's Demian
    Demian

    Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth is a Bildungsroman by Hermann Hesse, first published in 1919, but a prologue was added in 1960. Demian was first published under the pseudonym "Emil Sinclair", the name of the narrator of the story, but Hesse was later revealed to be the author....
     and Klingsors letzter Sommer
  • Thomas Mann
    Thomas Mann

    Paul Thomas Mann was a German literature, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature, known for his series of highly symbolic and irony epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual....
    's Death in Venice
    Death in Venice

    The novella Death in Venice was written by the German author Thomas Mann, and was first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig.. It was first published in English in 1925 as Death in Venice and Other Stories, translated by Kenneth Burke....
     and Doktor Faustus
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    was a Germans writer and according to George Eliot, "Germany's greatest man of letters? and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, humanism and science....
    's "The Sorrows of Young Werther
    The Sorrows of Young Werther

    The Sorrows of Young Werther is an epistolary novel and loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774; a revised edition of the novel was published in 1787....
    "


Famous Russian language
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
 Kunstlerromane include:

  • Vladimir Nabokov
    Vladimir Nabokov

    Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Multilingualism Russian-American novelist and short story writer.Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian language, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist....
    's The Gift


The following are famous English-language
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 Künstlerromane:
  • Joyce
    James Joyce

    James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Ireland expatriate author of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ....
    's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a autobiography novel by James Joyce, first serialized in The Egoist from 1914 to 1915 and published in book form in 1916 in literature....
  • Maxine Hong Kingston
    Maxine Hong Kingston

    Maxine Hong Kingston is an United States Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley where she graduated with a A.B. in English in 1962....
    's The Woman Warrior
    The Woman Warrior

    The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is a nonfictional memoir by Maxine Hong Kingston, published by Vintage in 1975. It is semi-autobiographical, incorporating many elements of fiction....
  • D. H. Lawrence
    D. H. Lawrence

    David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an England author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary criticism. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization....
    's Sons and Lovers
    Sons and Lovers

    Sons and Lovers is a novel by the English writer D. H. Lawrence....
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an United States writer of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself....
    's This Side of Paradise
    This Side of Paradise

    This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920 in literature, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth....
  • W. Somerset Maugham
    W. Somerset Maugham

    William Somerset Maugham , Order of the Companions of Honour was an English language playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was one of the most popular authors of his era, and reputedly the highest paid of his profession during the 1930s....
    's Of Human Bondage
    Of Human Bondage

    Of Human Bondage is a novel by William Somerset Maugham. It is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although Maugham stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention."...
  • Thomas Wolfe
    Thomas Wolfe

    Thomas Clayton Wolfe was an acclaimed American novelist of the early 20th century.Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels, plus many short story, dramatic works and novel fragments....
    's Look Homeward, Angel
    Look Homeward, Angel

    Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life is a 1929 in literature novel by Thomas Wolfe. It is Wolfe's first novel, and is considered a highly autobiography United States Bildungsroman....
  • Charles Dickens
    Charles Dickens

    Charles John Huffam Dickens, Royal Society of Arts , pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English people novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous Reform movement....
    ' David Copperfield
    David Copperfield (novel)

    David Copperfield or The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1850....
  • Irving Stone
    Irving Stone

    Irving Stone was an United States writer known for his biography novels of famous historical personalities. His best known works are Lust for Life a biographical novel about the life of Vincent van Gogh and The Agony and the Ecstasy a biographical novel about Michelangelo....
    's The Agony and the Ecstasy
  • Willa Cather
    Willa Cather

    Willa Sibert Cather was an United States author who grew up in Nebraska. She is best known for her depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains in novels such as O Pioneers!, My ?ntonia, and The Song of the Lark....
    's Song of the Lark
  • Virginia Woolf
    Virginia Woolf

    Adeline Virginia Woolf was an England novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literature literature figures of the twentieth century....
    's To the Lighthouse
    To the Lighthouse

    To the Lighthouse is a novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, centering on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, skillfully manipulates temporality and psychological exploration....
  • Radclyffe Hall
    Radclyffe Hall

    Radclyffe Hall was an England poet and author, best known for the lesbian classic The Well of Loneliness....
    's The Well of Loneliness
    The Well of Loneliness

    The Well of Loneliness is a 1928 lesbian literature by the English author Radclyffe Hall. It follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an English people from an upper-class family whose "sexual inversion " is apparent from an early age....
  • George Orwell
    George Orwell

    Eric Arthur Blair , better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an England author. His work is marked by a profound consciousness of social injustice, an intense dislike of totalitarianism, and a passion for clarity in language....
    's Keep the Aspidistra Flying
    Keep the Aspidistra Flying

    Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published 1936, is a grimly comic novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is the protagonist's romantic ambition to give up money and status, and the dismal life that results....
  • Richard Wright
    Richard Wright (author)

    Richard Nathaniel Wright was an African-American author of powerful, sometimes controversialnovels, short stories and non-fiction.Much of his literature concerned racial themes....
    's Black Boy
    Black Boy

    Black Boy is an autobiography by Richard Wright . Depicting Wright's life in great detail, the book tells the story of his troubled youth and race relations in the South....
  • Margaret Atwood
    Margaret Atwood

    Margaret Eleanor Atwood, Order of Canada is a Canada author, poet, literary criticism, feminist and activism. She is among the most-honored authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C....
    's Cat's Eye
    Cat's Eye (novel)

    Cat's Eye is a 1988 in literature novel by Margaret Atwood. In it, controversial painter Elaine Risley vividly reflects on her childhood and teenage years....
  • Chaim Potok
    Chaim Potok

    Chaim Potok was an American Jewish author and rabbi....
    's My Name is Asher Lev
    My Name Is Asher Lev

    My Name Is Asher Lev is a novel by Chaim Potok about a "Ladover" Hasidic Jewish boy from Brooklyn, Asher Lev, who is a loner with artistic inclinations....
  • Patrick White
    Patrick White

    Patrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian author who was widely regarded as a major English-language novelist of the 20th century. From 1935 until his death, he published 12 novels, two short-story collections and eight plays....
    's The Vivisector
    The Vivisector

    The Vivisector is a novel by Patrick White, first published in 1970. It details the lifelong creative journey of fictional artist/painter Hurtle Duffield....
  • Elizabeth Barret Browning's Aurora Leigh
    Aurora Leigh

    Aurora Leigh is an epic/novel poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the name of its heroine. The poem is written in blank verse and encompasses nine books ....
  • Art Spiegelman
    Art Spiegelman

    Art Spiegelman is an United States comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel memoir, Maus....
    's Maus
    Maus

    Maus: A Survivor's Tale is a memoir by Art Spiegelman, presented as a graphic novel. It is part one of a two-part series. The graphic novel as a whole took thirteen years to complete....
  • Henry James
    Henry James

    Henry James, Order of Merit , son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an United States author....
    's Roderick Hudson
    Roderick Hudson

    Roderick Hudson is a novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1875 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, it is a bildungsroman that traces the development of the title character, a sculptor....
  • Henry James
    Henry James

    Henry James, Order of Merit , son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an United States author....
    's The Tragic Muse
    The Tragic Muse

    The Tragic Muse is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1889-1890 and then as a book in 1890. This wide, cheerful panorama of England life follows the fortunes of two would-be artists: Nick Dormer, who vacillates between a political career and his efforts to become a painting, and Miriam Rooth...
  • John Fante
    John Fante

    John Fante was an United States novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Italian descent....
    's "Ask the Dust
    Ask the Dust

    Ask the Dust is a 1939 novel by Italian-American author John Fante set in depression-era California. It is one of a series of novels based around the character Arturo Bandini, a struggling young Italian-American writer from Boulder, Colorado living in Los Angeles who falls for a young, unstable Mexican waitress....
    "
Less famous, but stylistically remarkable English-language Künstlerromane include:
  • Alasdair Gray
    Alasdair Gray

    Alasdair Gray is a Scotland List of Scottish writers and artist. His most acclaimed work is his first novel Lanark , published in 1981 and written over a period of almost 30 years....
    's Lanark: A Life in Four Books consists of four books arranged in the order 3, 1, 2, 4; book 1 and 2 constituting a Künstlerroman
  • In John Dos Passos
    John Dos Passos

    John Roderigo Dos Passos was an American novelist and artist....
    ' U.S.A. trilogy
    U.S.A. trilogy

    The U.S.A. Trilogy is the major work of American writer John Dos Passos, comprising the novels The 42nd Parallel , 1919, also known as Nineteen Nineteen , and The Big Money ....
    , the Camera Eye sections add up to a modernist
    Modernism

    Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes both a set of cultural tendencies and an array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century....
     autobiographical
    Autobiography

    An autobiography is a biography written by its subject . The term was first used by the poet Robert Southey in 1809 in the English language Periodical publication Quarterly Review, but the form goes back to antiquity....
     Künstlerroman.
  • John Barth
    John Barth

    John Simmons Barth is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodern literature and metafiction quality of his work.John Barth was born in Cambridge, Maryland, and briefly studied "Elementary Theory and Advanced Orchestration" at Juilliard before attending Johns Hopkins University, receiving a B.A....
    's Lost in the Funhouse
    Lost in the Funhouse

    Lost in the Funhouse is a collection of loosely connected short stories that was originally published by John Barth in 1968. These postmodern stories examine the art of fiction writing, among other things, and seem to undermine the conventional and predictable nature of fiction....
     is a collection of short stories that are often read as a postmodernist
    Postmodernism

    Postmodernism literally means 'after the modernist movement'. While "modern" itself refers to something "related to the present", the movement of modernism and the following reaction of postmodernism are defined by a set of perspectives....
     Künstlerroman.