The Seventh Function of Language

by Laurent Binet

Book Overview

From the prizewinning author of HHhH, "the most insolent novel of the year" (L'Express) is a romp through the French intelligentsia of the twentieth century.

Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies--struck by a laundry van--after lunch with the presidential candidate Fran ois Mitterand. The world of letters mourns a tragic accident. But what if it wasn't an accident at all? What if Barthes was . ...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374261563
• ISBN13: 9780374261566
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"