The roman à clef (French for “novel with a key”) uses contemporary historical figures as its chief…
Mark Rampion is Huxley’s fictional version of D. H. Lawrence. Forster, Wyndham Lewis and Bennett do not identify that particular portrait.
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The roman à clef (French for “novel with a key”) uses contemporary historical figures as its chief characters. They are of course given fictional names. One example is Aldous Huxley’s Point Counter Point. Its Mark Rampion is modelled on ____.
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Mark Rampion is Huxley’s fictional version of D. H. Lawrence. Forster, Wyndham Lewis and Bennett do not identify that particular portrait.
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