Honoré de Balzac: Le Père Goriot/Far Goriot,
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations,
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre,
Gustave Flaubert: L'Education sentimentale/Frédéric Moreau ,
Amalie Skram: Constance Ring,
Knut Hamsun: Sult,
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Georg Lukács: Romanens teori,
Franco Moretti: The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture,