The Seventh Function of Language
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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.
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Giving up after 100 pages.
I have little knowledge or interest in the academic subjects of this story. Probably, as a consequence, I am finding the humour falls entirely flat - it has not made me even merely smile once. The murder mystery aspect is insubstantial.
Most likely, this is a sharp, witty work of genius and I am a dunce.
