'roman à clef' in Both Flesh and Not: Essays | Bookmarker

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a novel in which real people or events appear with invented names

These novels carve out for themselves an interstice between flat-out fiction and a sort of weird cerebral roman à clef.

—p.74 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace

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