... he finished it, he crossed the name of the book off his list. "The Achievement of Desire" could easily be regarded as bildungsroman. The Webster's College Dictionary definition of Bildungsroman is "a novel dealing with the education and development of its protagonist". The Bildungsroman as a genre has its roots in Germany. The word itself is German, with Bildung having a variety of connotations, from "portrait" and ... "formation", all of which give the sense of development or creation. Roman simply means "novel". Rodriguez's "The Achievement of Desire" is not a novel, but it has all th...

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