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A Künstlerroman is a novel about an artist’s growth and development, from youth to maturity. The term is German for “artist’s novel”.

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A Künstlerroman is a type of Bildungsroman, or coming-of-age novel.

It can focus on the development of a painter, musician, or poet.

It can also include studies of artists in middle or old age.

It can sometimes be about historical figures.

Examples

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: (1916) by James Joyce

Hunger: (1890) by Knut Hamsun

Look Homeward, Angel: (1929) by Thomas Wolfe

Doktor Faustus: (1947) by Thomas Mann

L’Oeuvre: (1886) by Zola

An Imaginary Life: (1978) by David Malouf

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