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The Seventh Function Of Language
Paperback Edition: 1
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 Franois 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.
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Pages : 390
Publisher : Vintage Books
Publication date : 2018-04-16
Subjects: Fiction, Contemporary, Crime / Thrillers, Historical Fiction, Political / Legal Thriller