moonlake [he/him]@hexbear.net to memes@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 months agoanglo momenthexbear.netimagemessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up1258arrow-down10
arrow-up1258arrow-down1imageanglo momenthexbear.netmoonlake [he/him]@hexbear.net to memes@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square65fedilink
minus-squareLlituro [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·7 months agowhen this is done by the author to obfuscate a fictional portrayal of real people, it’s called a roman a clef https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_à_clef
minus-squaretocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·edit-27 months agoFor anyone that doesn’t want to click but likes words, it’s French for ‘novel with a key’, as in if you know the key you can understand the underlying allegory.
when this is done by the author to obfuscate a fictional portrayal of real people, it’s called a roman a clef https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_à_clef
For anyone that doesn’t want to click but likes words, it’s French for ‘novel with a key’, as in if you know the key you can understand the underlying allegory.