Sentences with word «bildungsroman»

With its multiplicity of settings and kaleidoscopic mix of preoccupations - sex, Russia, jet helicopters, seismic upheaval, boarding schools, Middle Earth, skinheads, home improvement, suicide, skateboarding, Sovietology, public transportation, massage, Christian fundamentalism, dogs, Texas, global thermonuclear war, truth, evil, masturbation, hope, Bethlehem, CT, eventual salvation (abridged list)-- Oh the Glory of It All is memoir as bildungsroman as explosion.

Written and directed by Chad Hartigan (This Is Martin Bonner), Morris from America is a bittersweet bildungsroman which never hits a false note.

Part picaresque, part bildungsroman, Lady Bird & The Fox is a return to the dual - narrative romantic adventure of my early novels — packed with the kinds of historical detail that are generally overlooked in Australian fiction, and told with a bit of a wry smile and plenty of warmth.

Me and You (Unrated) Oscar - winner Bernardo Bertolucci (for The Last Emperor) directed this beguiling bildungsroman about the forbidden friendship secretly forged between a 14 year - old introvert (Jacopo Olmo Antinori) and the troubled, 25 year - old half - sister (Tea Falco) he shares the basement with when she comes to town in need of a place to stay.

A digital bildungsroman, Horizon Zero Dawn is a coming of age story not just for its main character but for the studio that created it as well.

This moving Bildungsroman is, of course, the 2013 film Monsters University.

VanderMeer marries bildungsroman, domestic drama, love story, and survival thriller into one compelling, intelligent story centered not around the gee - whiz novelty of a flying bear but around complex, vulnerable characters struggling with what it means to be a person.

In a raw and beautifully crafted bildungsroman, David Almond reveals the rich inner world of a boy teetering on the edge of manhood, a boy so curious and open to impulse that we fear for him and question his balance - and ultimately exult in his triumphs.

Since its publication in 1951, J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye has been the favored bildungsroman novel of the American teen.

Although the film carefully dodges some YA bildungsroman cliches and is bolstered by such compelling performances from its leads, I couldn't help but feel that the story that's left is somewhat underwhelming.

Every great Bildungsroman needs a kid — preferably precocious — dealing with bullies, insecurities, embarrassments, and parental drama.

Desplechin declined the semi-insulting offer of a berth in the designated dumping ground in favor of an invitation from the other end of the Croisette to premiere his enchanting bildungsroman.

Blu - ray Review by Kam Williams Homoerotic Bildungsroman Dramatizes Perils of Growing Up Gay in the «Hood It isn't bad enough that Chiron (Alex R. Hibbert / Ashton Sanders / Trevante Rhodes) is being raised by an emotionally - unavailable, drug - addicted, single - mom (Naomie Harris).

Frances Ha, which starred and was co-written by Baumbach's partner Greta Gerwig, was a meandering black - and - white bildungsroman with contemporary dance and stilted conversation as major themes.

ittersweet bildungsroman which never hits a false note.

But while this kind of comedic bildungsroman has been repeatedly overdone, what saves «Submarine» from becoming the ugly sister to «Napoleon Dynamite» is its smart and strongly developed central character.

In repackaging Only Yesterday, GKIDS lifts a sheen of dust off a surprisingly ambivalent back - to - nature bildungsroman about a twentysomething who makes a rural retreat as an adult only to find her urbanite 10 - year - old self in the rearview.

As for being an author: Margaret's screenplay is world - class literature, an impressively of - its - moment bildungsroman that finds poetry in hiccups and stammers.

Provocative, brutally honest, R - rated formative year stories for females are certainly in short supply, and so Heller's vividly drawn debut feature certainly delivers in this regard, with a rich and expressively effervescent bildungsroman story.

With a similar precision to the sharp blade seen in the film's opening moments (helping create one of the most arresting depictions of equine violence since The Godfather), Thoroughbreds immediately announces its arrival into the annals of teen angst dramas, playing out as a brooding bildungsroman of female friendship and murderous pacts that translates as...

Like the game itself, the novel offers rich and varied themes for study, including a consideration of its structure as a classic Bildungsroman.

Kathy Kacer, author of To Look a Nazi in the Eye Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Teen Readers Category At Bildungsroman

- Publishers Weekly «This well - written first novel attempts to be several things: a psychological suspense thriller, a satire of collegiate mores and popular culture, and a philosophical bildungsroman....

This absorbing, multifaceted bildungsroman is a tribute to the enduring bonds of family, whether by blood or otherwise.

''... Brimming with adolescent angst regarding intimacy and choice, this simplistic bildungsroman will most appeal to young fantasy fans.»

A paean to youth, desire, books, creativity, and unpredictability, it is a four - faceted bildungsroman and an Ars Poetica, in which Auster elucidates his devotion to literature and art.

In some ways, this debut is a by - the - book bildungsroman, but Anna's wry, biting voice elevates it to something more.

In 2001, the young Capetonian K. «Sello» Duiker released his visceral Bildungsroman, titled The Quiet Violence of Dreams, which is now regarded as a classic.

Kl.14: Matthew Barney - Bildungsroman Kl.15: The World is Made of Stories - verk fra Astrup Fearnley Samlingen.

It will be shown as part of Astrup Fearnley Museet's solo show of the artist's work Bildungsroman.

Part bildungsroman, part origin story, this explores the idea that what damages you gives you strength, but often with a price.

A digital bildungsroman, Horizon Zero Dawn is a coming of age story not just for its main character but for the studio that created it as well.

But it's testament to the universal appeal of this deft and moving bildungsroman, which takes a well - worn genre and delivers a near - perfect refresh brimming with brio, tenderness and authenticity.

VanderMeer marries bildungsroman, domestic drama, love story, and survival thriller into one compelling story centered around complex, vulnerable characters struggling with what it means to be human.

In a raw and beautifully crafted bildungsroman, David Almond reveals the rich inner world of a boy teetering on the edge of manhood.

Whereas Blankets is a vulnerable coming - of - age and into - doubt story, Habibi» while still a bildungsroman» delves further into the muck of adulthood and back into religion, this time with less hesitation.

... it is more than welcome, full of generous quotations and ancestor worship - a memory book, a bildungsroman, and practically a palimpsest, with the past written over but not at all erased, still signifying.

A surrogate father - son relationship develops, and there's even a reverberant spirit mother dwelling in an emerald green dreamscape to round out the bildungsroman.

For another, it's a loose adaptation of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, a bildungsroman that's much more concerned with its protagonist's psychological makeup than his travels.

At first, Lady Bird unintentionally borders on self - parody in its bildungsroman tropes, with extremely on - the - nose dialogue («you're not worth the tuition»).

Capsule reviews of The Landlord typically describe it as a bildungsroman in which an emotionally stunted white man comes of age through his first - hand encounter with the realities of African - American life.

It's an old sentiment, practically a requirement of the bildungsroman, but credit ought to go to both Heller and Powley (in their respective feature debuts) for making it seem relatively new in the context of Minnie's story.

Clocking in at over four hours in two rich parts, at least in the edited version debuting this weekend at Toronto's Lightbox, it's a landmark of seriocomic storytelling that is simultaneously a satire of biographical tall - tales, a depressive's bildungsroman, and an alternately tender and lacerating self - portrait, defending all the Joes and Larses of the world for their obscenity without sparing them the lash.

Picking up a copy of The Education of Eva Moskowitz, you might expect a bildungsroman.

Not as powerful as TKaM but as a bildungsroman it has merit.

How does Galassi strike a balance between writing Muse as a roman à clef and as a bildungsroman and / or romance on its own terms, and between using humor / satire and genuine emotion to tell this story?

She reviews with great interest and pleasure: literary fiction, bildungsroman, and historical fiction — the weirder the book, the greater the pleasure.