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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Crónica social y ficción caballeresca: un testimonio literario para la biografía del III duque de Medinaceli, don Gastón de la Cerda by Ana Martínez Muñoz

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Gaston d’Orléans héros d’une fabula néo-latine, la Peruviana de Claude-Barthélemy Morisot (1644) by Valérie Wampfler

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Imagen nobiliaria y ficción renacentista: la memoria linajística de la Casa de Benavente en un libro de caballerías manuscrito by Ana Martínez Muñoz

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The author, his work and his critics: an outline and evaluation of the controversy surrounding Klaus Mann’s <i>Mephisto</i> by C. von Maltzan

“…The interpretation of the novel as a roman à clef had consequences for its publication record in Germany. …”
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Artamène or the Great Cyrus: Scudéry Renames the Hero by Ruth Carver Capasso

“…Abstract Madeleine de Scudéry, in her novel Artamène ou ie Grand Cyrus, uses the naming of the hero, the depiction of contemporary figures as characters in this roman à clef, and an authorial pseudonym as strategies to provoke reader reaction and to depart from conventional practices of the time. …”
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Geschichte im Roman / Roman in der Geschichte by Klaus-Detlef Müller

“…Consequently, it seemed natural to read the novel as ‘roman à clef,’ which, however, has proven unsatisfactory. …”
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ON THE ROAD: JACK KEROUAC’S EPIC AUTOETHNOGRAPHY by Michael Amundsen

“…Jack Kerouac’s classic mid-twentieth century novel On the Road has been noted as the decisive work of Beat Generation literature. As a roman à clef it describes in intimate detail the world of Kerouac’s friends and acquaintances and their multifarious adventures and travels in the years from 1947 to 1950 when Kerouac was a young struggling writer. …”
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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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Les Fleurs bleues (R. Queneau) by Séverine Manhaval

“…The storywriter, the poet and the mathematician meet and put their wisdom in common in this complex and bewildering novel, the roman à clef of a deep and original linguistic experiment.…”
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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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Truman Capote’s Unfinished Novel “Answered Prayers”: On the History of Creation and Publication by Denis Zakharov

“…Capote’s novel was conceived as a roman á clef; the paper cites the names of the writers who influenced Capote and his Café Society literary project. …”
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«Aquí estamos todos locos»: The Bell Jar de Sylvia Plath como novela política by Laura de la Parra Fernández

“…The Bell Jar, el roman à clef de Sylvia Plath ha sido sobre todo leída como novela autobiográfica clave para entender su suicidio. …”
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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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VICOGLOSSIA: Annotatable and Commentable Library as a Bridge between Reader and Scholar (a proof of concept study: Early Soviet Philological Culture) by Michail Maiatsky, Alexey Boyarsky, Natalia Boyarskaya, Ekaterina Velmezova, Michael Piotrowski

“…We focus on the network of relations both within and between three key communities of the early Soviet philological milieu – the Formalists, the Marrists and the Bakhtinists – approaching them through the optics of two major philological romans à clef of the period. To this end, we (1) prepared a collection of primary texts; (2) built a repository of secondary literature; (3) using this research literature, enriched primary texts with both general and ad locum annotations; (4) adapted the nano-publications method as a comprehensive approach for representing this scholarly knowledge in the Semantic Web. …”
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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. …”