The seventh function of language / Laurent Binet ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.
Publication details: London : Harvill Secker, 2017.Description: 390 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 9781910701591 (paperback)
- 9781910701584 (hardback)
- 7th function of language
- Septième fonction du langage. English
- Barthes, Roland -- Assassination -- Fiction
- Barthes, Roland -- Fiction
- Barthes, Roland -- Assassination -- Fiction
- Conspiracies -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Linguistics -- Fiction
- Intellectuals -- France -- Fiction
- Murder -- Investigation -- France -- Fiction
- Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris, France : Quarter) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Fiction
- 843.92 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Adventure | BIN | Available | 066217 |
First published with the title La Septième fonction du langage in France by Editions Grasset & Fasquelle in 2015.
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 Francois Mitterrand, a slippery politician locked in a battle for the Presidency. 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 it gives whoever masters it the ability to convince anyone, in any situation, to do anything. Police Captain Jacques Bayard and his reluctant accomplice Simon Herzog set off on a chase that takes them from the corridors of power and academia to backstreet saunas and midnight rendezvous.
Translated from the French.
