Laurent Binet is Feydeau among sex addicts! – Le Figaro

PRESS REVIEW – Fnac novel Prize for The seventh function of language , author of HHhH a attracted criticism. A first step towards the Goncourt?

The latest book by Laurent Binet reinvents the circumstances of the death of Roland Barthes. He who had received the Goncourt first novel HHhH , revives thoughts of those so-called designers of “French Theory,” Deleuze Foucault.

To praise this novel, the press is generally unanimous. Elisabeth Philippe of Inrocks does not say enough. Both ‘polar quirky, funny and pop “, this novel is” one of the best surprises of the literary season. ”

Clearly, it is one of those books that unite opinions. Fabienne Pascaud of Télérama compared to “Feydeau and its vaudeville” when Le Point that had selected from the headlights novels of the literary season offers five reasons to read notably because it allows “a trip among sex addicts” or because it is “stronger than semiotics for Dummies”.

The site 20 minutes calls it “truculent spy novel” when Cross defines it as “an intellectual hilarious portrait of the 1980s” . Thierry Fiorile France Info judge that “it’s downright enjoyable to read woes Philippe Sollers and Bernard Henry Levy that the author ridicules without ultimately having to exaggerate.”

Gregory Leménager BibliObs wondered if “the book already plunged Saint-Germain-des-Prés in a kind of civil war.” For the moment the answer is factually not. Gregory Leménager tempers as coldly that “It is not sure, however, that the” Seventh function “is one long joke khâgneux franchouillard lingered.”