Book Review - The Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet

Review of Laurent Binet's novel, The Seventh Function of Language, translated from the French by Sam Taylor and published by Picado.

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[KnowledgelostOrgOnline]

Should have left in the rant, kids love those things. I loved this book, what I love about literary thrillers like this is the way the author is able to teach the reader something (in this case literary criticism, linguists and philosophy) while writing a fast pace plot heavy novel. I think Umberto Eco and Javier Marías also do this very well.

As the great Foucault would say, _”The first rule of logos club is, you don’t talk about logos club”_

[chrisoleson]

I loved that quotation about god being a bad novelist as well. . . . God is Franzen? I loved to see David Lodge's Morris Zapp being reincarnated.