A roman à clef or roman à clé (French for "novel with a key", French pronunciation: /ʁɔ.mɑ̃n a kle/ ) is a novel describing real life, behind a façade of fiction. "Key" in this context means the table you can use to swap out the names, see figure.
The reasons an author might choose the roman à clef format include:
Biographically inspired works have also appeared in other literary genres, art forms, and media; for example, the film Citizen Kane, a...
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A roman à clef or roman à clé (French for "novel with a key", French pronunciation: /ʁɔ.mɑ̃n a kle/ ) is a novel describing real life, behind a façade of fiction. "Key" in this context means the table you can use to swap out the names, see figure.
The reasons an author might choose the roman à clef format include:
Biographically inspired works have also appeared in other literary genres, art forms, and media; for example, the film Citizen Kane, a thinly disguised biographical film about William Randolph Hearst; Victor Hugo's banned play, Le Roi s'amuse, the basis for the opera Rigoletto; as well as Dreamgirls, the Broadway musical and the film of the same name, both based on the career of The Supremes.
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