The suspicious death of literary critic Roland Barthes in 1980 Paris reveals the secret history of the French intelligentsia, plunging a hapless police detective into the depths of literary theory as it was documented in a famed linguist's lost manuscript.
- ISBN10 1250181682
- ISBN13 9781250181688
- Publish Date 14 August 2018 (first published 1 August 2017)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Picador USA
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 368
- Language English