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A review by lindzlovesreading
The 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet
5.0
I am the mark for this book. Very European, very esoteric, and at times very surreal. At university I went through a large Stucturlism and Barthes faze, and when I mean faze I mean I tried unsuccessfully to write my Honours thesis in a structurlist format and I read Mythologies. As soon as humanly possible I was all over this book. Since I had read HHHH I kind of knew what I was getting into, and because of HHHH I had no idea what I was getting into. It starts with the surprising death of Roland Barthes and then through each encounter and plot twist we almost enter different parallels and matrixes. Where it is all fiction and all reality. And more important all novelistic - after all it is language that is the basis of society and culture. And the book revels in this.
It is weird and wonderful, so I am not particularly fussed if this novel achieved any of it's goals. I adored the writing, I adored the mixure and mockery of the ideas. Espcially the idea of using very much alive human beings as characters in your novel, the baggage and morality this carries. This was a completely bazzerk novel, where the rules do no apply at all, and I loved it for it.
It is weird and wonderful, so I am not particularly fussed if this novel achieved any of it's goals. I adored the writing, I adored the mixure and mockery of the ideas. Espcially the idea of using very much alive human beings as characters in your novel, the baggage and morality this carries. This was a completely bazzerk novel, where the rules do no apply at all, and I loved it for it.