Status Updates From Il romanzo di formazione

If one wonders about the disappearance of the novel of youth, then, the youth of 1919—maimed, shocked, speechless, decimated—provide quite a clear answer... If history can make cultural forms necessary, it can make them impossible as well, and this is what the war did to the bildungsroman.

“… and our era, less intimidated by sex…” good reminder this was not written by a North American