THE SEVENTH FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE

PARIS 1980 A BRILLIANTLY ERUDITE COMEDY that RECALLS FLAUBERT'S PARROT and THE NAME OF THE ROSE with more than a dash OF THE DA VINCI CODE From the cafes of Saint-Germain to the corridors of Cornell University, and into the duels and orgies of the Logos Club, a secret philosophical society that dates to the Roman Empire. Binet has written both a send-up and a wildly exuberant celebration of the French intellectual tradition.