The novel "Dandelion wine" by Ray Bradbury as a bildungsroman

The article aims at considering novel "Dandelion wine" by Ray Bradbury as a bildungsroman by revealing in the plot features of the genre. The features used were established by Bakhtin in his work "Bildungsroman and its role in the history of realism". The research comes to the conclusion that the novel appears to be realistic type of the genre - Entwicklungsroman ("development novel").