• Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    2 months ago

    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_%C3%A0_clef

    • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      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.