Laurent Binet

"An ambitious and highly entertaining novel of revisionist history by Laurent Binet, the author of the international bestseller HHhH"--

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. Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies-struck by a laundry van-after lunch with the presidential candidate François Mitterand. The world of letters mourns a tragic accident. But...