Modernist Lionhunting: An Exploration of Patronage in the Cultural Imaginary by Kristína Melišová

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Jeu de rôles : autofiction dans l’œuvre romanesque de Jean Genet by Paweł Kamiński

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Fiction, history, and politics in brazil in the poetic narrative of Cyro dos Anjos in the novel Montanha by Ricardo Santos Porto

“… This paper aims to propose an analysis of the book Montanha, wrote by Cyro dos Anjos in 1956, using for this intent some concepts of the comparative literature, historical novel, and Roman a Clef. Cyro in this political novel tries to extract the essence from the facts in a very turbulent moment of the Brazilian society and brings them together to a very complex and fragmented plot. …”
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Infants of the Spring (1932): Cutting across the Stage of Harlem’s Black Bohemia by Elisa Cecchinato

“…Based on an analysis of the novel Infants of the Spring (1932), this article explores the circulation and metamorphoses of Black and queer cultural identities in the urban space of Harlem (New York) during the 1920s. In this roman à clef, Black American writer and editor Wallace Thurman revisited the experience of the Black bohemia. …”
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Dramaturgy and the Plausible Wonder in Restoration Fiction, 1660–1670 by Tomas Monterrey

“… Mackenzie’s roman-à-clef Aretina (1660) seems to foresee or, indeed, to capture the reopening of theatres when, at the end of Book 1, a group of actors present a monster (and a show) “upon a stage, whereon the Commedians used to act,” and the narrator subsequently summarises the performance taking place on the palace’s neglected stage. …”
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Monstrous (In)Authenticity: Text and Identity in Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake by Nataša Kampmark

“…My Life as a Fake (2003) is a roman a clef based on the literary hoax which took place in Melbourne in 1944 and assumed an Ossianic significance in the Australian literary establishment. …”
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The art of breaking up. Infelicitous engagements in Polish novels and memoirs from the turn of the 20th century by Agnieszka Bąbel

“…Texts that refer to authentic biographical material, which were read by the contemporary readers as romans à clef violating moral taboos seem particularly interesting. …”
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Complicity in fin-de-siècle literature by Craske, H

“…Chapter 3 analyses a polemical media exchange in a little magazine called Le Zig-Zag, and two romans à clefs about Jean Lorrain and Rachilde, written by their mutual friend Oscar Méténier. …”