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"Alfred ist der jüngste Nachfahre der von Ärmels, doch die glanzvollen Zeiten der Familie sind vorbei. Neben seiner umschwärmten, aber abgedrehten Mutter, seinem genialen Bruder und seinem kauzigen Vater fühlt er sich wie eine Karikatur. Trotzdem hat er es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, seine alteingesessene Familie zu neuem Ruhm zu führen. Ein Held möchte er werden. Dazu hat er verschiedene Möglichkeiten: Er könnte, wie sein Vorbild und Namensvetter, vierzig Franzosen erschlagen, einen Gesangswettbewerb gewinnen oder zusammen mit Ruth ein Hotel aufmachen, denn ja, die Liebe siegt immer! Doch ist Alfred wirklich zum Helden geboren?" -- Dust jacket

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Maturation (Psychology) in literature --- Psychological fiction --- -Bildungsromans --- -Apprenticeship novels --- Bildungsroman --- Bildungsromane --- Coming of age --- Coming-of-age novels --- Entwicklungsromane --- Erziehungsromane --- Fiction --- History and criticism --- Kafka, Franz --- Bildungsromans --- Maturation (Psychology) in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Kafka, Franz, --- -History and criticism

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When one thinks of German artist-novels and 'Bildungsromane,' works long available in translation come to mind-by Goethe, Novalis, Hoffmann, Stifter, Keller, or more recently by Mann, Kafka, Musil, or Grass. Yet Eduard Mörike's provocatively subtitled 'Maler Nolten: Novelle in zwei Teilen' (Nolten the Painter: A Novella in Two Parts, 1832) has remained neglected and misunderstood, and until now has never been translated into English, despite its obvious ties to other artist-novels and its striking modernity in playing with conventions of narrative authority and heroic identity. Witness the subtle irony of the opening sequence, in which the narrator is subverted by hints at his own clumsiness and intimations about the dire truths that lurk behind the protagonist Nolten's relationships to his male friends and to the seductive yet somehow frightening women in his life. Or the interplay between the narrator's attempts to make sense of Nolten's complex inner motivations in his loves and art and the ludicrously pompous pathos with which Nolten persists in speaking and thinking, as he concocts a heroic persona caught up in passion, intrigue, and tragedy. Fascinating too is the mysterious trail of the 'Grenzgänger,' or border-line characters, with their hints at the dimension of 'Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves' that seems to threaten and at the same time to foster the complex unfolding of the realities of life and art that defy Nolten's all-too-artful 'mastery.' Raleigh Whitinger is professor in the Department of Germanic Languages at the University of Alberta.

Bildungsromans, German. --- German Bildungsromans --- German fiction --- Mörike, Eduard, --- Mërike, Ė., --- Molike, Aidehua, --- Möricke, Eduard, --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- Bildungsromane. --- Eduard Mörike. --- German Artist-Novel. --- Gypsies. --- Heroic Identity. --- Narrative Authority. --- Raleigh Whitinger. --- Thieves. --- Tramps. --- Morike, Eduard,

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"The Bildungsroman - the story of the development or formation of a young man - is the most famous German contribution to the European novel. Most studies of the Bildungsroman have concentrated on its underlying philosophy; Michael Minden addresses it as literature. He offers detailed readings of some of the best-known novels in the German language, from Goethe to Mann, including Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Agathon, Anton Reiser, Hyperion, Heinrich von Ofterdingen, Der grune Heinrich, Der Nachsommer and Der Zauberberg. Looking at the novels from the points of view of gender, subjectivity and ideology of the aesthetic, and taking account of late-twentieth-century literary theory, Minden uncovers aspects and motifs which subvert traditional ideas of the Bildungsroman and raise questions about the function and status of literature."--Jacket.

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German fiction --- Bildungsroman --- Heroes in literature --- History and criticism --- -Heroes in literature --- Maturation (Psychology) in literature --- Psychological fiction, German --- -Bildungsromans --- -Apprenticeship novels --- Bildungsromane --- Coming of age --- Coming-of-age novels --- Entwicklungsromane --- Erziehungsromane --- Fiction --- German psychological fiction --- German literature --- -History and criticism --- Bildungsromans --- German fiction - 20th century - History and criticism