The 7th Function of Language

'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you ll read this year' - ObserverRoland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It s February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand. 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 unbelie...