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From the prizewinning writer of HHhH comes The Seventh Function of Words, a romp through the French intelligentsia of the 20th hundred years. Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies - struck by a laundry vehicle - after meal with the presidential candidate François Mitterand. The world of words mourns a tragic mishap. But imagine if it wasn't a major accident at all? Imagine if Barthes was murdered? In The Seventh Function of Words, Laurent Binet spins a madcap secret background of the French intelligentsia, starring such luminaries as Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Julia Kristeva - as well as the hapless police detective Jacques Bayard, whose new case will plunge him in to the depths of literary theory. Soon Bayard finds himself searching for a lost manuscript by the linguist Roman Jakobson on the inexplicable "seventh function of language". A brilliantly erudite humor that recalls Flaubert's Parrot and The Name of the Rose - with an increase of when compared to a dash of The Da Vinci Code - The Seventh Function of Words calls for us from the cafés of Paris to the corridors of Cornell College or university and in to the duels and orgies of the Logos Golf club, a secret philosophical modern culture that schedules to the period of the Roman Empire. Binet has written both a send-up and a wildly exuberant party of the French intellectual custom.
