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The seventh function of language

by Laurent Binet

Death and burialFictionFiction, crimeFiction, mystery & detective, generalNew York Times reviewedBarthes, Roland -- Death and burial -- Fiction

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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