The 7th function of language
Binet, Laurent2018
Book
Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It's February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with François Mitterrand, a slippery politician locked in a battle for the Presidency. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident. But what if it were an assassination? What if Barthes was carrying a document of unbelievable, global importance? A document explaining the seventh function of language - an idea so powerful it gives whoever masters it the ability to convince anyone, in any situation, to do anything.
Main title:
The 7th function of language / Laurent Binet ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.
Author:
Binet, Laurent, authorTaylor, Sam, 1970-, translator
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2018.
Collation:
390 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.This translation originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2017.
ISBN:
9781784703196 (pbk)
Dewey class:
843.92FICTION
Language:
EnglishFrench
BRN:
2621920