Explore: Roman À Clef

A roman à clef (/roʊˌmɒn ə ˈkleɪ/ roh-MON ə KLAY; French: [ʁɔmɑ̃n‿a kle]; lit. 'novel with a key') is a novel about real-life events that is overlaid

A film à clef (or cinéma à clef, movie à clef, film à clé (French: [film a kle], lit. 'film with a key') is a film describing real life, behind a façade

Rhythm (2016), and Gunsport (2020). Feldman formed sophisti pop group Roman à clef with A Sunny Day in Glasgow members, Ryan Newmyer and Jen Goma. Feldman

languages, nomen à clef or nomen à clé ([nomen‿a kle], French for "name with a key"), is a name describing a real person, behind a façade of fiction

and Roman warriors and maidens. In fact, Scudéry created the roman à clef to provide a forum for her thinly veiled fiction featuring political and public

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is a 1923 roman à clef by American author Edwin Lefèvre. It is told in the first person by a character, in the book

Wigs on the Green is a 1935 satirical novel by Nancy Mitford. A roman à clef, it is notable for lampooning British fascism, specifically political enthusiasms

Watershute, which are dramatically resolved at the end. A Staircase in Surrey functions partly as a Roman à clef, with multiple allusions to thinly veiled people

is a roman à clef (a work of fiction based on real people and events) about Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign in 1992. It was adapted as a film

with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use. The novel is a roman à clef, with many key figures of the Beat movement