A Künstlerroman ( [ˈkʏnstlɐ.ʁoˌmaːn]; plural -ane), meaning "artist's novel" in English, is a narrative about an artist's growth to maturity.
It may be classified as a specific subgenre of Bildungsroman; such a work, usually a novel, tends to depict the conflicts of a sensitive youth against the values of a middle and upper class society of his or her time.
In German
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1795 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Ludwig Tieck's 1798 Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen
Novalis's 1802 Heinrich von Ofterdingen
Hermann Hesse's Demian (1919) and Klingsor's Last Summer (1920)
Thomas Mann's Tonio Kröger (1903), and Doctor Faustus (1947)
Jakob Wassermann's 1915 Das Gänsemännchen
Rainer Maria Rilke's 1910 The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
In English
Alasdair Gray's Lanark: A Life in Four Books consists of four books arranged in the order 3, 1, 2, 4; books 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.
In French
1831, 1837 Honore de Balzac's The Unknown Masterpiece
1904–1905 Romain Rolland's Jean-Christophe
1913 Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time
In Italian
Gabriele D'Annunzio's Il Piacere, Le Vergini Delle Rocce and Il Fuoco
1975 Gavino Ledda's My Father, My Master (Padre Padrone)
In Icelandic
Halldór Laxness's World Light
Halldór Laxness's The Fish Can Sing
In Russian
Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift
In Croatian
1932 Miroslav Krleža's The Return of Filip Latinovicz
In Malayalam
1993 Perumbadavam Sreedharan's Oru Sankeerthanam Pole
In Portuguese
1883 Maria Benedita Bormann's Lésbia
In Turkish
1896-1897 Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil's Blue and Black (Mavi ve Siyah)
