Seventh Function Language Translated French by Binet Laurent (2 results)

Hardcover First Printing. First Edition. Faint discoloration lower edge of boards, lower spine crimped a tad, fine in fine dust jacket with a few wrinkles top edge spine, in mylar cover.

very good dust-jacket, cover price $27.00, attractive copy, very good brown hardcover. BINET, LAURENT. The seventh function of language. Translated from the French by Sam Taylor. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017, stated First American edition, and 1st printing number line starting with 1, 359pp., . Dust-jacket design by Alex Merto. 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., Paris, 1980. Literary critic Roland Barthes is struck by a laundry van and dies after lunch with presidential candidate François Mitterand. Was it an accident . or murder? Hapless police detective Jacques Bayard's new case will plunge him into the depths of literary theory, and sends him in search of a lost manuscript by the linguist Roman Jakobson on the mysterious "seventh function of language.". ISBN 9780374261566.