It feels like serious literary bildungsromans are less common these days, especially ones that start from infancy and span multiple decades, showing how values and habits shape a person's life gradually. Has this become something of a dying form outside of YA and genre, or am I looking in the wrong places?
Please be female.
>>25171157No one sees their life as an internal journey anymore. So no one is writing it, and the few that do journey, don't publish it because it wouldn't ring with anyoneThe equivalent nowadays is just getting to the end of life avoiding any major sensations of panicThey don't realize that actual growth would solve this. Buncha dweebs
>>25171157Life is changing too fast. Bildungsromans are most effective against a stable background so you can more clearly see how the person evolves over time, but with how rapidly society changes, you can't be sure if you're seeing the person actually change or just act differently in a different circumstance.
