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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 manuscript
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The 7th Function of Language, Laurent Binet
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- Released
- 2018
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Laurent Binet
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Released
- 2018
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN10
- 1784703192
- ISBN13
- 9781784703196
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Philosophical Topics, Historical Fiction, Suspense, LGBTQ+, France, Detective Fiction, Linguistics, French Literature, Conspiracy, Homosexuality, Postmodern literature, Rhetoric, Secret Societies, Semiotics
- First published
- 2015
- Original title
- La septième fonction du langage
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- 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 manuscript