The 7th function of language
Binet, Laurent2018
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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.
The 7th function of language / Laurent Binet ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.
Binet, Laurent, authorTaylor, Sam, 1970-, translator
London : Vintage, 2018.
390 pages ; 20 cm
This translation originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2017.
9781784703196 (pbk)
843.9'2
EnglishFrench
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