The seventh function of language / Laurent Binet ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.

By:

Binet, Laurent [author.]

Contributor(s):

Taylor, Sam, 1970- [translator.]

Material type: Text

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ISBN:

9781250181688
1250181682

Uniform titles:

Septième fonction du langage. English

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DDC classification:

843.92 BIN

Summary: 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.Summary: Paris, 1980. Literary critic Roland Barthes is struck by a laundry van and dies after lunch with presidential candidate François Mitterand. Was it an accident ... or murder? Hapless police detective Jacques Bayard's new case will plunge him into the depths of literary theory, and sends him in search of a lost manuscript by the linguist Roman Jakobson on the mysterious "seventh function of language."

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Long Loan	TUS: Midlands, Main Library Novels/Biographies	843.92 BIN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		220377

"Originally published in France by Editions Grasser et Fasquelle"--Title page verso.

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.

Paris, 1980. Literary critic Roland Barthes is struck by a laundry van and dies after lunch with presidential candidate François Mitterand. Was it an accident ... or murder? Hapless police detective Jacques Bayard's new case will plunge him into the depths of literary theory, and sends him in search of a lost manuscript by the linguist Roman Jakobson on the mysterious "seventh function of language."

English.