Проза, вярна на истината, и измислени истории (прев. Ружа Мускурова)
True Fictions and False Histories (transl. by Ruzha Muskurova)

Summary/Abstract: This text is chapter 2 of the book „The Art of scandal: Modernism, Libel Law, and the Roman À Clef” by Sean Latham. It examines main characteristics and the strange social life of the roman à clef. Lodged at the intersection between history and fiction, the roman à clef opens the otherwise closed circuit of realism, unleashing the “extreme skepticism” the novel had tenuously constrained by the end of the eighteenth century. The full blossoming of celebrity culture - first facilitated by the expansion of print culture in the eighteenth century and later expanded through the multiplying media of the nineteenth century - helps sustain this counter-form to the traditional novel. The Roman à clef’s infectious powers gained new vectors of dissemination in the early decades of the twentieth century.

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