The Seventh Function of Language

2017-08-01 Fiction

Author : Laurent Binet
Release : 2017-08-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 084/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Seventh Function of Language written by Laurent Binet. This book was released on 2017-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the prizewinning author of HHhH, “the most insolent novel of the year” (L’Express) comes a romp through the French intelligentsia of the twentieth century. Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies—struck by a laundry van—after lunch with the presidential candidate François Mitterand. The world of letters mourns a tragic accident. But what if it wasn’t an accident at all? What if Barthes was . . . 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). Soon Bayard finds himself in search of a lost manuscript by the linguist Roman Jakobson on the mysterious “seventh function of language.” A brilliantly erudite comedy, The Seventh Function of Language takes us from the cafés of Saint-Germain to the corridors of Cornell University, and into the duels and orgies of the Logos Club, a secret philosophical society that dates to the Roman Empire. Binet has written both a send-up and a wildly exuberant celebration of the French intellectual tradition.

The Seventh Function of Language

2017-08 Fiction

Author : Laurent Binet
Release : 2017-08
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 563/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Seventh Function of Language written by Laurent Binet. This book was released on 2017-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The 7th Function of Language

2017-05-04 Fiction

Author : Laurent Binet
Release : 2017-05-04
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 636/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The 7th Function of Language written by Laurent Binet. This book was released on 2017-05-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you’ll read this year' - Observer Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It’s February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident. But what if it were an assassination? What if Barthes was carrying a document of unbelievable, global importance? A document explaining the seventh function of language – an idea so powerful it gives whoever masters it the ability to convince anyone, in any situation, to do anything. Police Captain Jacques Bayard and his reluctant accomplice Simon Herzog set off on a chase that takes them from the corridors of power to backstreet saunas and midnight meetings. What they discover is a worldwide conspiracy involving the President, murderous Bulgarians and a secret international debating society.

A=-A

2021-07-29 Comics & Graphic Novels

Author : Dimitris Anastasiou
Release : 2021-07-29
Genre : Comics & Graphic Novels
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Book Rating : 883/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A=-A written by Dimitris Anastasiou. This book was released on 2021-07-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A=-A is a beautiful, dark and surreal story, about a man called Alpha whose world is quite literally turned upside down for a day. As he wanders the streets of his hometown, reality flips on its axis, sending him and the reader on a wild and extraordinary journey. This wholly immersive, escapist, psychedelic mystery centres around two profound philosophical questions: in a strange and unreliable world, can we be certain of anything? And if we stop craving certainty - and entertain doubt - what new possibilities become available to us? 'Gloriously odd, deeply moving . . . In short: a trip.' - Niall Griffiths, winner of the Wales Book of the Year 2020

HHhH

2012-04-24 Fiction

Author : Laurent Binet
Release : 2012-04-24
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 762/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book HHhH written by Laurent Binet. This book was released on 2012-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Captivating . . . [HHhH] has a vitality very different from that of most historical fiction.” —James Wood, The New Yorker The basis for the major motion picture, "The Man with the Iron Heart " available on streaming and home video. HHhH: "Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich," or "Himmler's brain is called Heydrich." The most lethal man in Hitler's cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich seemed indestructible—until two exiled operatives, a Slovak and a Czech, killed him and changed the course of history. In Laurent Binet's mesmerizing debut, we follow Jozef Gabcík and Jan Kubiš from their dramatic escape from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to their fatal attack on Heydrich and their own brutal deaths in the basement of a Prague church. A seamless blend of memory, actuality, and Binet's own remarkable imagination, HHhH is at once thrilling and intellectually engrossing—a fast-paced novel of the Second World War that is also a profound meditation on the debt we owe to history. A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

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