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The Charm Buyers describes extraordinary beauty and turbulent change: Tahiti during the last years of French nuclear testing in the Pacific in the 1990s.Marc Antoine Chen, the troubled heir of black pearl cultivators, narrates his journey through a labyrinth of elusive truths. As a child, Marc lives in a dreamlike world with his great-grandmother A-tai and her stories of a semi-nomadic Hakka culture that no longer exists. The Hakka, originally brought from China to Tahiti to work in cotton in the nineteenth century, settled in communities throughout the South Pacific.On the verge of adulthood, Marc falls in love with the calm and confident Marie-Laure Li, but when she leaves to study in France, Marc drifts, becoming the lover of the enigmatic painter Aurore du Chatelet. Years later, Marie-Laure returns, suffering from a debilitating malady-one of many illnesses surfacing in the wake of nuclear testing-and Marc is offered a strange, magical proposal in exchange for the life of his once beloved.A supernatural, shamanic reality exists together with the traditions of the Hakka, set against the background of the French colonial past and the Ma'ohi struggle for independence. The Charm Buyers presents a world in transition and its people-black pearl cultivators, artists, taro farmers, politicians, smugglers, and shamans.

French Polynesia. --- French colonialism. --- Hakka. --- Huahine. --- Papeete. --- Tahiti. --- bildungsroman. --- black pearls. --- nuclear testing. --- shamanism. --- French Polynesia. --- French colonialism. --- Hakka. --- Huahine. --- Papeete. --- Tahiti. --- bildungsroman. --- black pearls. --- nuclear testing. --- shamanism.

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The Bildungsroman has been one of the most significant genres in Western literature since the eighteenth century. This volume, comprised of eleven chapters by leading experts in the field, offers original insights into how the novel of formation developed a strong tradition in Germany, France, Britain, Russia, and the USA. In demonstrating how the genre has been adopted and adapted in innovative forms of fiction, this volume also shows how a genre traditionally associated with the young white man has been used to give expression to the formative experiences of women, LGBTQ people, and post-colonial populations. Exploring the genre's emergence and evolution in numerous countries and across more than two hundred years, this volume provides unprecedented historical and geographical coverage and demonstrates that the Bildungsroman has a rich heritage and a bright future.

Bildungsromans --- European literature --- American literature --- Bildungsroman --- History and criticism --- E-books --- History and criticism.

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"Alfred ist der jüngste Nachfahre der von Ärmels, doch die glanzvollen Zeiten der Familie sind vorbei. Neben seiner umschwärmten, aber abgedrehten Mutter, seinem genialen Bruder und seinem kauzigen Vater fühlt er sich wie eine Karikatur. Trotzdem hat er es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, seine alteingesessene Familie zu neuem Ruhm zu führen. Ein Held möchte er werden. Dazu hat er verschiedene Möglichkeiten: Er könnte, wie sein Vorbild und Namensvetter, vierzig Franzosen erschlagen, einen Gesangswettbewerb gewinnen oder zusammen mit Ruth ein Hotel aufmachen, denn ja, die Liebe siegt immer! Doch ist Alfred wirklich zum Helden geboren?" -- Dust jacket

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Bildungsromans --- French fiction --- German fiction --- Musical fiction --- Musicians in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Bildungsroman --- Musicians in literature --- 19th century --- 20th century

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Although some of the most distinguished German novels written since about 1770 are generally considered to be Bildungsromane, the term Bildungsroman is all too frequently used in English without an awareness of the tradition from which it arose. Professor Swales concentrates on the roles of plot, characterization, and narrative commentary in novels by Wieland, Goethe, Stifter, Keller, Mann, and Hesse. By pointing out that the goal in each work is both elusive and problematic, he suggests a previously unsuspected ironic intent. His analysis adds to our awareness of the potentialities inherent in the novel.Originally published in 1978.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

German fiction --- Bildungsromans --- Roman allemand --- Bildungsroman --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Maturation (Psychology) in literature --- Psychological fiction, German --- Maturation (Psychology) in literature. --- History and criticism.