The roman a clef, the novel using real people as bases for characters with different names (and sometimes different qualities), is an old genre of fiction. An early example, Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey (1818), for example, satirizes Byron, Coleridge, and Shelley.
Other titles, employing artists as the subjects, include Maugham's own Of Human Bondage and James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as.....
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