roman à clef

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a piece of fiction, especially a novel, containing real-life people and/or events
(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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roman a clef
a novel in which actual persons and events are disguised as fictional characters
roman à clef

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    ro·man à clef

    Türkçe nasıl söylenir

    rōmın ı klef

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    /ˈrōmən ə ˈklef/ /ˈroʊmən ə ˈklɛf/

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    () French roman à clef (“novel with a key”)