Künstlerroman

novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

novel sequence by Marcel Proust

1909 novel by Jack London

1918 autobiographical artist's novel and bildungsroman by James Joyce

1947 novel by Thomas Mann

1919 novel by Hermann Hesse

1981 novel by Alasdair Gray

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

novel by Chaim Potok