La séptima función del lenguaje

February 25, 1980. Roland Barthes is run over by a van. But... what if it was murder? Police commissioner Jacques Bayard and young semiotician Simon Herzog are assigned to the investigation. What begins as a routine investigation of a tragic accident soon becomes a gripping thriller. Roland Barthes possessed the seventh function of language, capable of convincing anyone to do anything, in any situation. Coveted by the leading intellectuals and politicians of the time, this seventh function leaves a trail of bodies in its wake. Everyone is a suspect.