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The Seventh Function of Language

by Laurent Binet

2017 · mystery & crime · adult

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Set in 2 places · 1 primary
Sense of Place
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Description · Open Library (CC0)

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.

Set in

  • ★
    Paris · France
    1980 Parisian literary circles
    ★ primary
  • Bologna · Italy
    Academic congress scenes

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