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Thank you, DES. There is a discussion in place at the parent article that is partly about creation of this one, as we will probably do the same for another period of his life (and do the attribution straightaway, ha!). All the best and take good care. No Great Shaker (talk) 09:29, 1 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The article describes "Savrola" as a "roman a clef" - which means a novel in which the characters are thinly-disguised versions of real people.
Are we sure this is true? I thought it was just a romantic tale set in a Ruritanian-type land, with a hero based on how Young Winston imagined himself.Paulturtle (talk) 10:43, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think I've ever seen "Savrola" described as a roman a clef - as with most of these things there is no hard-and-fast definition of these things but such a book needs to be a much tighter and recognisable parody of actual people and events, eg. Aldous Huxley's "Crome Yellow". The description of the heroine and of the hero's nurse are to some extent derived from Lady Randolph and his nurse Woomany, but lots of novels contain elements of autobiography, fictionalised to a greater or lesser extent. After some thought I'm taking this out, unless somebody can produce a cite or wants to argue about it.
I leave others to dwell on the obvious Oedipal elements of Savrola having a love affair with a woman based on his real-life mother - who neglected him in childhood but had a close relationship with him for a decade or so after his father's death.Paulturtle (talk) 06:41, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]