Moon Palace: travel diary or bildungsroman?

In my opinion, moon palace is first a bildungsroman, then a travel diary.
What I mean by that is, the travel aspect is more so a way for the protagonist to discover himself, it is a tool for self discovery.
He travels to the west for a new beginning.
If it was simply a travel diary, we wouldn't have explored the themes of grieving, dealing with money problems, solitude, being an illegitimate child, facing homelessness in such detail in the first chapter.
The only elements we see that this is a travel diary (for me) is that he'll go to the west and that he has to go from his mom's home, to his uncle's, to an apartment which i would count as traveling.

That’s absolutely true Alicia and Sudenaz!
Marco focus on his feelings it shows his internal psychological crisis. Since the story is told by a mature adult looking back at his own transformation, the emotional focus proves it is a Bildungsroman, not a diary.

I couldn't agree more with you, Sudenaz! That is to say, he is exploring himself more (by looking for his origins, for example with his father) than exploring his country.

I get your point too and I agree with you. Marco Fogg is going through some adruous events which will make him grown up and succeeded in maturity. Those events have a real big impact on his vision of life. What do you think about it ?

I deeply agree with you too. But this also portray the fact that Moon Palace is a novel of education as he go through a lot of arduous events which change his mind and is vision of life. But the consequence of all of that is that he want to learn more about himself and his roots. So he desided to travel. So in fact Moon Palace can be called a roman of education and a travel diary because one is the consequence of the other.  Do you understand what I mean ?

Ok, my dear particpants, your ideas are interesting but could you quote the novel to illustrate your points? 😉