by Laurent Binet · GRASSET · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246776017
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«La septième fonction du langage» is the intellectual thriller novel by Laurent Binet, published by Grasset in hardback (496 pages, in French).
In 1980s Paris, the death of Roland Barthes after being hit by a van prompts Inspector Jacques Bayard and young semiotician Simon Herzog to investigate. The investigators discover the Logos Club, a secret society, and a document about the seventh function of language, which would allow anyone to be convinced of anything.
The novel was awarded the Prix Interallié and the Prix du roman Fnac in 2015, and was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2018.
Intended for readers seeking a thriller set in the French intellectual world and in debates about language and power.
Laurent Binet is a French writer and university lecturer. His work focuses on the modern political scene in France.
