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Book Audiobook 2017

The Seventh Function of Language

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Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published
2017
  • Death and burial
  • Fiction
  • Fiction, crime
  • New York Times reviewed

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.