The seventh function of language
By: Laurent Binet ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor
Contributors: Taylor, Sam, 1970- translator
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780374261566
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Death and burial; Fiction
Other titles: 7th function of language
Work titles: Septième fonction du langage
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.
Notes: Translation from the French of: Septième fonction du langage.