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[โ€“] Llituro@hexbear.net 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

when this is done by the author to obfuscate a fictional portrayal of real people, it's called a roman a clef https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_%C3%A0_clef

[โ€“] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

For anyone that doesn't want to click but likes words, it's French for 'novel with a key', as in if you know the key you can understand the underlying allegory.