"The strands of the plot are skilfully interwoven through a dual process of fictionalisation of the real and realisation of the fictional.Binet evidently finds intellectual games and narrative trickery more intriguing than addressing the world we live in" - David Sexton, Evening Standard (.) As a thriller, as a detective book, however, The 7th Function of Language soon palls, never even faintly credible. "(A) smart, spoof thriller, cheekily taking as its cast the most famous Parisian intellectuals on the scene in 1980 (.) Numerous outrages on reality are committed. Intellectual-spoofing playful fun - but some more taken by it than others
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