Word: bildungsroman
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Because the protagonist, Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim), enters the prison at the age of nineteen after dropping out of school at eleven, the film isn’t as much a gangster picture as it is a bildungsroman. He doesn’t just learn how to kill people, or how to build a drug empire from the inside; El Djebena also learns how to read and write. Through his brief encounters on the outside, he also discovers what there is to live for in the real world...
...genre [bildungsroman] entails much more than that,” Claybaugh wrote. “The genre asks what it means for a young man or woman to take his or her place in society, and so it explores the kinds of compromises and accommodations that society requires...
During his first Norton Lecture, Pamuk said that unlike Harvard students, he taught himself. He plunged into bildungsromans like Gustave Flaubert’s “Sentimental Education,” looking for action and conflict and the meaning of life, “not bothered at all about the artificial act of reading and writing a novel.” Over time, the wisdom in the bildungsroman shaped his soul and he grew reflective and unsettled, as a driver becomes conscious of his machine, he said...
...Theatre, dramatizes his 1993 novel The Black Album. Set in 1989, during the furor over Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, it follows a British Pakistani college boy torn between the delights of sex and Western culture and the lure of Islamic fundamentalism. The book is a fresh and funny bildungsroman, capturing an antic '80s London. Sadly the play is clunky and shallow, flattening its characters to the very stereotypes that Kureishi's better work has helped explode. The reviews were a bit "rough," admits Kureishi, but that's life as a writer: "You've got to take risks, do weirdo...
MySpace's story is an almost stereotypical coming-of-age tale for Internet start-ups, a modern-day bildungsroman of social networking. The idea was birthed in the seedy underworld of the Internet by the same folks who brought you such innovations as spam, the pop-up ad and spyware. The site itself was a rip-off, a hastily thrown-together clone of its predecessor Friendster. Both sites missed the heyday of the Web bubble, but there's something to be said for persistence and a good idea, and MySpace quickly grew far beyond anyone's expectations. (See TIME...