The Seventh Function of Language: A Novel

Binet, Laurent

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Language: English

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NY, 2017

0374261563 / 9780374261566

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First American edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. 8vo., 359pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. In The Seventh Function of Language, Laurent Binet spins a madcap secret history of the French intelligentsia, starring such luminaries as Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Julia Kristeva―as well as the hapless police detective Jacques Bayard, whose new case will plunge him into the depths of literary theory (starting with the French version of Roland Barthes for Dummies). Soon Bayard finds himself in search of a lost manuscript by the linguist Roman Jakobson on the mysterious “seventh function of language.” A brilliantly erudite comedy with more than a dash of The Da Vinci Code―The Seventh Function of Language takes us from the cafés of Saint-Germain to the corridors of Cornell University, and into the duels and orgies of the Logos Club, a secret philosophical society that dates to the Roman Empire. Binet has written both a send-up and a wildly exuberant celebration of the French intellectual tradition.…

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Title
The Seventh Function of Language: A Novel
Author
Binet, Laurent
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NY
Publication year
2017
Condition
Fine
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Hardcover
Language
English
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0374261563
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9780374261566
Edition
1st Edition
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1st Printing
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8vo
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