Artist novel
An artist novel is a story in which the fate of an artist or genius is depicted and his work, his life and the social and personal environment are illuminated. The protagonist can be a real or a fictional person.
As a literary genre , the artist novel is a sub-category of the classic educational novel and has its origins in German early romanticism . To this day, the artist's novel is a well-established term in literary studies and is not translated into most foreign languages.
If the form is a novella , it is called an artist novella .
Well-known artist novels
- Goethe : Wilhelm Meister's theatrical broadcast (“Urmeister”, novel), from 1776, in print 1911
- Ludwig Tieck : Franz Sternbald's Walks , 1798
- ETA Hoffmann : Ritter Gluck (story), 1809
- ETA Hoffmann : Life views of the cat Murr , 1819/21
- Eduard Mörike : Painter Nolten , 1832
- Honoré de Balzac : Lost Illusions , 1837–1843
- Gottfried Keller : The Green Heinrich , 1854/55, second version 1879/80
- Eduard Mörike : Mozart on the trip to Prague (novella), 1856
- Charles Dickens : Great Expectations (novel), 1860
- Henry James : Roderick Hudson (novel), 1875
- Émile Zola : The Work (novel), 1886
- Gabriele D'Annunzio : Il Piacere , 1889
- Gonzaga Duque : Mocidade Morta (novel), 1899, Rio de Janeiro
- Heinrich Mann : Pippo Spano (novella), 1904
- Thomas Mann : Death in Venice (novella), 1912; Doctor Faustus (novel), 1957
- James Joyce : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , 1916
- Hermann Hesse : Klingsor's Last Summer (story), 1920
- Thomas Mann : Doctor Faustus , 1947
- Boris Pasternak : Doctor Zhivago (novel), 1956
- Hans Henny Jahnn : A river without a bank , 1961
- Robert Schneider : Schlafes Bruder , 1992
- Hanns-Josef Ortheil : In the light of the lagoon , 1999 (also about the painter William Turner, but the plot is set in Venice)
- James Wilson : The Painter's Shadow , 2001 (first German edition 2003; about the painter William Turner)
literature
- Peter V. Zima : The European artist novel: from romantic utopia to postmodern parody , Tübingen [u. a.]: Francke, 2008
Web links
Wiktionary: Artist novel - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
