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The seventh function of language, Laurent Binet ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor

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The seventh function of language, Laurent Binet ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The seventh function of language
Oclc number
957022065
Responsibility statement
Laurent Binet ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor
Summary
The suspicious death of literary critic Roland Barthes in 1980 Paris reveals the secret history of the French intelligentsia, plunging a hapless police detective into the depths of literary theory as it was documented in a famed linguist's lost manuscriptParis, 1980. Literary critic Roland Barthes is struck by a laundry van and dies after lunch with presidential candidate François Mitterand. Was it an accident ... or murder? Hapless police detective Jacques Bayard's new case will plunge him into the depths of literary theory, and sends him in search of a lost manuscript by the linguist Roman Jakobson on the mysterious "seventh function of language."
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