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The Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From the prizewinning author of HHhH, "the most insolent novel of the year" (L'Express)Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies—struck by a laundry van—after lunch with the presidential candidate François Mitterand. The world of letters mourns a tragic accident. But what if it wasn't an accident at all? What if Barthes was . . . murdered?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, Judith Butler, and Julia Kristeva—as well as the hapless police detective Jacques Bayard, whose new case will plunge him into the depths of literary theory (starting with the French version of Roland Barthes for Dummies). Soon Bayard finds himself in search of a lost manuscript by the linguist Roman Jakobson on the mysterious "seventh function of...

Who reads The Seventh Function of Language?

Author

Laurent Binet

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, World Fiction

Rating

3.68 / 5 (62 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14