Well, this is certainly worth pasting:

The other variant worth consideration is the Künstlerroman, or 'artist novel', which is a Bildungsroman in which the protagonist becomes an artist, musician, or poet. Important examples are Joyce's Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man and Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel.

Entwicklungsroman has some slight fame for being the longest word in English (it is found in a few English dictionaries) having each of the five vowels once and only once.

from you link, tsuwm (and many thanks for it):

http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/?date=19970825

So Portrait... is in a special category beyond the bildungsroman and entwicklungsroman...

Das ist gut! (Forgive this little German, but I do make a heckuva sauerbraten!)

Now, to imagine the Scrabble board arrangement in which you could actually build entwicklungsroman with seven letters... Is roman a word, I wonder?

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