roman a clef
Example Sentences
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Autofiction, meanwhile, is nothing new, arguably just a voguish term for the sorts of roman a clef that have always borrowed heavily from personal experience.
From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 2018
In an afterword, Antheil scholar Mauro Piccinini usefully identifies the various roman a clef elements in the story, but you don’t need to be aware of any of them.
From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2017
Still, at least some of the backlash seems attributable to that same roman a clef fact.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2015
In my complete adolescent self-absorption Beckett was less a human being than a character in a thinly-veiled roman a clef about me.
From Time • Jan. 11, 2012
Wells’ 1910 roman a clef, “The New Machiavelli,” calling the Webbs’ salon a “center of reference for all sorts of legislative proposals and political expedients.”
From BusinessWeek • Sep. 8, 2011
