roman
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After all, her next book is a roman à clef about Gala, and writing about a woman who might be in dire straits would be exploitative.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025
The seamless overlap between real life and fictional counterparts, and the faithful reproduction of such well-established facts, conveys the author’s intention to offer a crystal clear clé to this roman à clef.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
But Hollywood’s biggest zeitgeist in years was propelled by a pair of movies without a roman numeral, a Jedi or a superhero in sight.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2023
Anderson has written, publishing four novels, including "Star," a roman à clef, and three autobiographies — a much larger backlist than the average model/actor.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2023
The words Tsimtsum and Panama were printed on each side of the bow in stark, black, roman capitals.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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
In bookstores there was a boomlet in rakishly intelligent literary romans à clef.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2017
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
Marcel Provost: "Le jeune premier des romans de Georges Ohnet," which isn't bad.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
