In
romance languages
The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are Language family, directly descended from Vulgar Latin. They are the only extant subgroup of the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-E ...
, ''nomen à clef'' or ''nomen à clé'' (, French for "name with a key"), is a
name
A name is a term used for identification by an external observer. They can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context. The entity identified by a name is called its referent. A person ...
describing a real person, behind a façade of
fiction
Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying character (arts), individuals, events, or setting (narrative), places that are imagination, imaginary or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent ...
.
"The films in my life"
By François Truffaut, Da Capo Press, 1994, , pg 131 "Key" in this context means a table one can use to swap out the names.
It is the nomenclature complement of the roman à clef
A ''roman à clef'' ( ; ; ) is a novel about real-life events that is overlaid with a façade of fiction. The fictitious names in the novel represent real people and the "key" is the relationship between the non-fiction and the fiction. This m ...
.
See also
* Roman à clef
A ''roman à clef'' ( ; ; ) is a novel about real-life events that is overlaid with a façade of fiction. The fictitious names in the novel represent real people and the "key" is the relationship between the non-fiction and the fiction. This m ...
* Film à clef
A (or , , (, ) is a film describing real life, behind a façade of fiction. "Key" in this context means a table one can use to swap out the names.
is the film equivalent of the literary ''roman à clef'', and the two share the same techniques.
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* Allegory
As a List of narrative techniques, literary device or artistic form, an allegory is a wikt:narrative, narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with moral or political signi ...
* Autobiographical novel
An autobiographical novel, also known as an autobiographical fiction, fictional autobiography, or autobiographical fiction novel, is a type of novel which uses autofiction techniques, or the merging of autobiographical and fictive elements. The ...
* Literary technique
A narrative technique (also, in fiction, a fictional device) is any of several storytelling methods the creator of a narrative, story uses,
thus effectively relaying information to the audience or making the story more complete, complex, or engag ...
* Semi-fiction
References
Fiction
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