Title: The seventh function of language
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.
Subjects: Death and burial, Fiction, Fiction, crime, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, New York Times reviewed, Barthes, Roland -- Death and burial -- Fiction
People: Roland Barthes