Bildungsroman

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In literary criticism, a bildungsroman is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth and change of the protagonist as they progress from childhood to adulthood (coming of age). The term comes from the German words Bildung ('formation' or 'education') and Roman ('novel').

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