The 7th Function of Language

Laurent Binet; Sam Taylor (Translator)

From the prizewinning author of HHhH, "the most insolent novel of the year" (L'Express) 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 ...