![]() 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 ). But what if it wasn't an accident at all? What if Barthes was. The world of letters mourns a tragic accident. ![]() The literary critic Roland Barthes dies-struck by a laundry van-after lunch with the presidential candidate Fran ois Mitterand. ![]() From the prizewinning author of HHhH, "the most insolent novel of the year" ( L'Express ) is a romp through the French intelligentsia of the twentieth century. ![]()
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