A review by ronanmcd
The 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet

4.0

At one point, despondently,a main character laments, "Right from the beginning, we were chasing a mirage". That's the crux of a novel built on media theory, literature and philosophy and semiotics. Binet cleverly tried everything at the book, dissembling fiction as his characters (largely based on real world people) decide the world into signs. Foucault's Pendulum exploded.