life"; (4) the connection with psychology, especially the then-new psychology of development; and (5) the ideal of humanity, of the full realization of all human potential as the goal of life". 1
             On his essay on Hölderlin, he comments:
             "[The Bildungsroman] examines a regular course of development in the life of the individual; each of its stages has its own value and each is at the same time the basis of a higher stage. The dissonances and conflicts of life appear as the necessary transit points of the individual on his way to maturity and harmony. And the 'highest happiness of humankind' is the development of the person as the unifying, substantial form of human existence" 2
             Some other authors have a more extended definition. They consider this kind of novel as a genre in which na individual's growth and development happens within a context and there is a quest for meaning in life (and, some
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