… keeps dull-mindedness away.
In two separate places today, I came across the word “bildungsroman”. The first time I passed it by, much like some of the students in my ESL book group do when we’re reading a story. I figured I could live without knowing what it meant. But when it popped up a second time in the same day, I had to pay attention. And I had to look it up. In case it’s new for you too…
bildungsroman – from the German bildung (education) and roman (novel). A bildungsroman is a novel with the main theme being the formative years or spiritual education of a person. (paraphrasing the Oxford English Dictionary)
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