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This influence would be most acutely felt in the genre of the <em>bildungsroman,<\/em> the coming of age narrative. Leaving home, moving through institutions, seeking a place in society; these all became crucial to how we think about novels and what they, and we are about.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Today\u2019s chapter is a <em>bildungsroman<\/em> in miniature, a capsuled biography. Moses is found floating, with eyes peeking out in concern and hands extending to grasp the river-riding infant. Like any narrative, this one feels immersive because of its exceptional editing. The child who was helpless becomes the prince whose identity lies elsewhere, groans muffled by damask and glittering gold. A stroll out of the palace reveals the glory of Egypt rests on the bricks of brutality just as much as the munificence of the Nile. This encounter engenders both character and plot; Moses discovers himself, only to find himself in the narrative he would come to define as both scribe and protagonist. In the resonant phrase of Wallace Stevens, there he \u201cfound himself more truly and more strange,\u201d a stranger in a strange land.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Moses\u2019s <em>bildungsroman<\/em> continues to resonate because it thoroughly partakes of the modern while also tracking on to the arc of the religious. It demands that we continually create ourselves, and that our story is soldered from this project of self-fashioning. At the same time, it charts this growth against an essential optimism. We aim to discover a grander authenticity that burns incandescently and consummates rather than consumes. 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