Laurent Binet has something to celebrate. The novelist was awarded on Thursday the price Interallié 2015 for his thriller The Seventh language Function (ed. Grasset). Last September, he received the Prix du Roman Fnac. Laurent Binet succeeds Mathias Menegoz writer, winner in 2014 for his first novel Karpathia .
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This thriller about the death of Roland Barthes was chosen over three other novels: History of love and hatred , Charles Dantzig (Grasset), Escape , Lionel Duroy (Julliard) and The Little Female , Philippe Jaenada (Julliard).
“A pure fiction”
The novel starting point is nothing less than the “assassination” of Roland Barthes, whose feast we Thursday the 100th anniversary of the birth. Obviously, there is a fiction. “I did not kill Barthes. He really died in an accident,” hit by a van in Paris, February 25, 1980, recently justified Laurent Binet.
If Barthes was murdered, that he was in possession of an explosive document the ultimate discovery of the Russian-American linguist Roman Jakobson: the famous seventh language function. This mythical seventh function (Jakobson has really defined six) would “convince anybody to do anything, anytime.”
It is understood that this “seventh tool” is coveted by the entire political class (the novel is set during the campaign of the presidential elections in 1981) and foreign powers. As a thriller, there are chases, KGB agents, mysterious Japanese.
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