A Künstlerroman (German pronunciation: [ˈkʏnstlɐ.ʁoˌmaːn]; plural -ane), meaning "artist's novel" in English, is a narrative about an artist's growth to maturity.[1][2] It could be classified as a sub-category of Bildungsroman: a coming-of-age novel.[3] 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.[4] According to Oxford Reference, the difference may lie in a longer view across the Künstlerroman hero's whole life, not just their childhood years.[5]

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  1. ^ a b Werlock, James P. (2010) The Facts on File companion to the American short story, Volume 2, p.387
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Germaine de Staël in Germany: Gender and Literary Authority by Judith E. Martin (page 128) 2001 Fairleigh & Dickinson University Press
  4. ^ "Künstlerroman | literary genre". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  5. ^ "Künstlerroman". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 21 Nov. 2021, from https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100045770.
  6. ^ Calonne, David Stephen. Charles Bukowski. Reaktion Books, London, 2012. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-78023-023-8
  7. ^ 'True stories', John Mullan, The Guardian, 27 October 2007.
  8. ^ Miriam de Paiva Vieira, "From Canvas to Paper: The Novel by Tracy Chevalier", Art and New Media: Vermeer’s Work under Different Semiotic Systems p.19
  9. ^ John Neary Something and nothingness: the fiction of John Updike & John Fowles p.54
  10. ^ Gilles Deleuze. Marcel Proust et les signes. Paris: PUF, 1964]
  11. ^ Rodríguez, Ileana; Szurmuk, Mónica (2015), The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature (ebook), New York: Cambridge University Press, p. 212, ISBN 9781316419106