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 0374261563
- ISBN13 9780374261566
- Publish Date 1 August 2017
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 January 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 368
- Language English