Roman à clef
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A Roman à clef is a novel which is non-fiction, but contains fictional names to hide the identity of those involved.
Examples
Sibel Edmonds, the most gagged person in US history, wrote The Lone Gladio, a roman à clef, after learning that such a book would not be subject to censorship.
The Amazon page of Tracy R. Twyman's Genuflect noted that "several of the characters in this story have certain aspects based on known, powerful figures in the modern world, I make no claim that these people are involved in any nefarious deeds such as those depicted here,"
Examples
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Empress Bianca | Author sued by Lily Safra, wife of murdered spook/billionaire Edmond Safra, as a defamatory roman à clef. |
Methodical Illusion | |
Windswept House: A Vatican Novel | 1996 novel by Roman Catholic priest and theologian Malachi Martin, containing "real events and real people masked in the form of a novel", telling the story of an international organized attempt by these Vatican insiders and secular internationalists to force a pope of the Catholic Church to abdicate. |
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