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roman à clef(French; “novel with a key”) Novel that has the extraliterary interest of portraying identifiable people more or less thinly disguised as fictional characters. The tradition dates to 17th-century France, when members of aristocratic literary coteries included in their historical romances representations of well-known figures in the court of Louis XIV. A more recent example is W. Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale (1930), widely held to portray Thomas Hardy and Hugh Walpole. A more common type of roman à clef is one in which the disguised characters are easily recognized only by a few insiders, as in Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins (1954). |
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| Grazer said her roman a clef had offended none of the real-life players. Nor is the problem that this book, so obviously a roman a clef, is more opaque for the American reader, who simply may not be able to understand it. After hearing that of' Oswaldskovitch really meant it with that commie stuff when he defected to the Soviet Union, Thornley transformed the book, called The Idle Warriors, into a roman a clef about Oswald--making Thornley the only person to write a book about Lee Oswald before that fall day in Dallas. |
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