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Laurent Binet’s comic secret history of the French intelligentsia is both a wild send-up and an exuberant celebration of French intellectual tradition. Translated by Sam Taylor.Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It’s February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with politician François Mitterrand. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident. But what if it were an assassination? What if Barthes was carrying a document of unbelievable, global importance? A document explaining the seventh function of language - an idea so powerful that whoever masters it is able to convince anyone, in any situation, to do anything."...a cunning, often hilarious mystery for the Mensa set and fans of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and Tom Stoppard's Arcadia ... In addition to some challenging thickets of language theory, the novel is packed with drama — car chases, mutilations, suicide, graphic sex, and multiple murders. There are Russian spies, Bulgarian assassins, Venetian thugs, Japanese saviors, a wily North African gigolo — Foucault's pendant! — and a secret debating society in which the stakes range from digital amputation to castration.

Who reads The 7th Function of Language?

Author

Laurent Binet, Sam Taylor

Publisher

Vintage Digital

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781473524637

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Thriller, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.68 / 5 (32 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14