roman
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Titled “Fiesta” in drafts, the novel is a roman à clef through and through, a story that may have been news across the Atlantic but rang clear as a church bell through the Latin Quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The sparks, he said, resembed a "giant roman candle" and went from the plane's nose to its tail.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2025
“Did elon musk just hit the roman salute at his inauguration speech?”
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
There is no more quotable novel about Hollywood than Carrie Fisher’s roman à clef, “Postcards From the Edge.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
Bletchley Park was secret site number 10—X in roman numerals.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
Its obsessive characters, abrupt transitions, abstract narrative and hyper-naturalistic attention to detail also recall the French nouvelle romans of Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2023
This record further emphasizes her leap away from autobiography into songs that are either pure fictions or else lyrically symbolic in ways that don’t act as romans à clef.
From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2020
“I’m sad that this is what America demands as entertainment. We’re the romans, cheering for the lions. ‘Are you not entertained?’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2019
That “lunacy” is evidenced, for example, by Hester’s efforts to make romantic romans à clef out of Murdoch’s books.
From The New Yorker ● May 10, 2016
Le public aime les romans faux, is another brave declaration in the same preface; ce roman est un roman vrai.
From Figures of Several Centuries by Arthur Symons
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