Teaching the elements of Bildungsroman. „La Medeleni” by Ionel Teodoreanu

The article proposes an analysis of the elements of Bildungsroman from Ionel Teodoreanu’s novel La Medeleni. The analysis is done in order to inform the students about the elements that make the novel a Bildungsroman. It is about certain circumstances and events that the characters (Danut, Olguta and Monica) go through, following which they evolve in terms of acquiring life experience. They educate themselves by becoming different, maturing, eventually. They are natural stages of childhood, preadolescence and adolescence. It is important to detect these moments because they are the basis of the development of the character as a personality.