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Laurent Binet

Biography

Laurent Binet

Laurent Binet was born in Paris, France, in 1972. He is the author of LA VIE PROFESSIONNELLE DE LAURENT B., a memoir of his experience teaching in secondary schools in Paris. In March 2010, his debut novel, HHhH, won the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman. Laurent Binet is a professor at the University of Paris III, where he lectures on French literature.

Laurent Binet

Books by Laurent Binet

The Seventh Function of Language
Written by Laurent Binet and translated by Sam Taylor. - Fiction, Literary, Literary Fiction

In THE SEVENTH FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE, Laurent Binet spins a madcap secret history of the French intelligentsia, starring such luminaries as Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler and Julia Kristeva --- as well as the hapless police detective Jacques Bayard, whose new case will plunge him into the depths of literary theory (starting with the French version of ROLAND BARTHES FOR DUMMIES). Soon Bayard finds himself in search of a lost manuscript by the linguist Roman Jakobson on the mysterious “seventh function of language.”