Künstlerroman

A Künstlerroman (pronounced|/ˈkʏnstlɐ.roˌmaːn/, German: "artist's novel") is a specific sub-genre of Bildungsroman; it is 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.

Famous German-language Künstlerromane include:
*Hermann Hesse's "Demian" and "Klingsors letzter Sommer"
*Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice" and "Doktor Faustus"

The following are famous English-language Künstlerromane:
*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"
*Radclyffe Hall's "The Well of Loneliness"
*George Orwell's "Keep the Aspidistra Flying"
*Richard Wright's "Black Boy"
*Margaret Atwood's "Cat's Eye"
*Chaim Potok's "My Name is Asher Lev"
*Patrick White's "The Vivisector"
*Elizabeth Barret Browning's "Aurora Leigh"
*Art Spiegelman's "Maus"
*Henry James's "Roderick Hudson"

Less famous, but stylistically remarkable English-language Künstlerromane include:
*Alasdair Gray's "" consists of four books arranged in the order 3, 1, 2, 4; book 1 and 2 constituting a Künstlerroman
*In John Dos Passos' U.S.A. trilogy, the "Camera Eye" sections add up to a modernist autobiographical Künstlerroman.
*John Barth's "Lost in the Funhouse" is a collection of short stories that are often read as a postmodernist Künstlerroman.