英语词汇roman à clef的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

roman à clef; livre à clef. Roman à clef translates from the French as “novel with a key” and is also known as a livre à clef, “book with a key,” and in German as a Schlüssel-roman. In such novels thinly disguised portraits of actual well-known persons are presented under fictitious names. When the roman à clef originated in 17th-century France “keys” to the real persons in- volved were often published after the books appeared. Notable instances of “key novels” in England include Thomas Love Pea- cock’s Nightmare Abbey (1818), which caricatured Byron, Shel- ley, and Coleridge; Benjamin Disraeli’s Venetia (1837); Aldous Huxley’s Point Counter Point (1928), featuring a disguised D. H. Lawrence, among others; and Somerset Maugham’s Cakes and Ale, among others of his novels, in which the characters were often hardly disguised at all.

词汇	roman à clef
词源	roman à clef; livre à clef. Roman à clef translates from the French as “novel with a key” and is also known as a livre à clef, “book with a key,” and in German as a Schlüssel-roman. In such novels thinly disguised portraits of actual well-known persons are presented under fictitious names. When the roman à clef originated in 17th-century France “keys” to the real persons in- volved were often published after the books appeared. Notable instances of “key novels” in England include Thomas Love Pea- cock’s Nightmare Abbey (1818), which caricatured Byron, Shel- ley, and Coleridge; Benjamin Disraeli’s Venetia (1837); Aldous Huxley’s Point Counter Point (1928), featuring a disguised D. H. Lawrence, among others; and Somerset Maugham’s Cakes and Ale, among others of his novels, in which the characters were often hardly disguised at all.
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