Craved The Name of the Rose for semiotic warfare and erudite murder? The Seventh Function of Language turns theory itself into the ultimate weapon.
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- Philosophers & semioticians become murder suspects
- Linguistic theory = literal life-or-death weapon
- Metafictional games toy w/ narrative truth
- 1980s French academia drips w/ paranoia
If you savored Eco's medieval monastery as a pressure cooker for semiotic warfare, Binet offers 1980s Paris—where Roland Barthes' death isn't accidental, Jacques Derrida becomes a suspect, and linguistic theory itself is the murder weapon. This is intellectual thriller as blood sport, demanding you decode Saussure while chasing conspirators through faculty lounges and underground debate clubs where a single speech act can topple governments.
Binet weaponizes the same postmodern delight in unreliable narration and metafictional sleight-of-hand that made Eco's labyrinth so intoxicating. Every digression into semiotics rewards like a hidden manuscript, every academic feud crackles with monastic intrigue.
This is reading as conspiracy, where language doesn't just describe power—it is power.
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"Binet offers an unquestionably brilliant evocation of French postmodernism... and I really enjoyed reading it." — Marc, Goodreads
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