Word: bildungsroman
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...scholar who nourishes his adolescent awareness for the rest of his emotional days) then we're ready for a final justification that ought to serve to appease the angers of those already offended by the members of clay so far revealed. Ultimate consideration of the Bogart mystique as the Bildungsroman for an age that takes cheerily to names and literary sorrow from the post-war boys (Mailer, Salinger, Kerouac) and can find, with the jubilance of the healthy competitive student, nothing true in the struggling art of its peers, those now circa twenty, cannot help but be instructive to anyone...