The 7th Function of Language

Binet, Laurent

ISBN 10: 1910701599 / ISBN 13: 9781910701591

Editore: Penguin Random House, 2017

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• Titolo: The 7th Function of Language
• Editore: Penguin Random House
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1910701599
• ISBN 13: 9781910701591
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

Roland Barthes, one of the twentieth-century’s towering literary figures, 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, who is locked in a battle for the Presidency. 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? That document was the key to 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 global chase that takes them from the corridors of power and academia to backstreet saunas and midnight rendezvous. What they discover is a global conspiracy involving the President, murderous Bulgarians and a secret international debating society. In the world of intellectuals and politicians, everyone is a suspect. And who can you trust when the idea of truth itself is at stake?

Informazioni sull?autore

Laurent Binet lives and works in France.


His first novel, HHhH, was an international bestseller which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt du premier roman, among other prizes.


The 7th Function of Language won the Prix de la FNAC and Prix Interallié. Civilisations is a bestseller that has won the Grand Prix de l'Académie française.