![]() ![]() ![]() In The Seventh Function of Language, Laurent Binet spins a madcap secret history of the French intelligentsia, starring such luminaries as Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Julia Kristeva - as well as the hapless police detective Jacques Bayard, whose new case will plunge him into the depths of literary theory. But what if it wasn't an accident at all? What if Barthes was murdered? The world of letters mourns a tragic accident. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies - struck by a laundry van - after lunch with the presidential candidate François Mitterand. From the prizewinning author of HHhH comes The Seventh Function of Language, a romp through the French intelligentsia of the 20th century. ![]()
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