The 7th Function Of Language

Laurent Binet Vintage €12.59

This wildly inventive novel takes as its starting point the apparently accidental death of the celebrated French literary critic Roland Barthes in 1980, but soon blossoms into an epic shaggy dog story. If you’ve never heard of Barthes you may find it all bafflingly Gallic, but I think that Binet is one of those writers who gives intellectuals a good name.