Tls 1247

[Muriel11]

16d A book like Primary Colors , or maybe John Berger's G (3,5) ?E? N?V?L
Thanks for thinking about it - and can you explain the answer please

[fiction-factory]

red novel

[Muriel11]

But why?

[Mamyalynne]

Conversation here

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Crosswords/Question1628338.html

[fiction-factory]

He was a Marxist

[highbury57]

And.... the Marxist strand doesn’t really give a good link. We started this conversation yesterday; I can only repeat that I’m not convinced. The phrase Red Novel doesn’t mean anything unless there’s a meaning I’ve missed. Perhaps Broteas has coined a neologism.

[Toorak]

But a Marxist would write a ‘red novel’

[Calibax]

Cryptically a Marxist might write a ‘red novel’ but is a "red novel" a thing? There seems to be double wordplay and no definition.

[Mamyalynne]

It's not very satisfactory is it, feels like we are missing something

[Mamyalynne]

Key Novel - Primary Colors is a Roman á clef and 'G' is a key.

[Mamyalynne]

I'll add a '?' in case I sounded over confident.

[highbury57]

Ingenious and more convincing than Red novel. But-and sorry still to be pernickety and dog in the manger-does key novel have an important meaning. The definition is hardly world shatteringly meaningful. It’s late. *** Broteas-metaphorically-and all his(?) deeds.

[highbury57]

Missing word is ***. And it’s not what you spread on bread. Bonsoir to all.

[Mamyalynne]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_%C3%A0_clef


Night x

[Muriel11]

Thank you

[Mamyalynne]

Key Novel was the correct answer to anyone still interested