Künstlerroman

A Künstlerroman (/'k?nstl?.ro?ma?n/, German: "artist's novel") is a kind of Bildungsroman, a novel about an artist'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.

The following are famous English-language Künstlerroman:

Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior

D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers

F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise

W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage

Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel

Charles Dickens' David Copperfield

Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy

Willa Cather's Song of the Lark (novel)