The Seventh Function of Language

A Novel

paperback, 368 pages

Published Aug. 14, 2018 by Picador.

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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.

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