Episteme, My Arse
Christopher Tayler: Laurent Binet, 15 June 2017
The Seventh Function of Language
by Laurent Binet, translated by Sam Taylor.
Harvill Secker, 390 pp., £16.99, May 2017,978 1 910701 58 4 Show More
by Laurent Binet, translated by Sam Taylor.
Harvill Secker, 390 pp., £16.99, May 2017,
“... murder of his wife, Hélène, in November 1980, which makes him an obvious candidate for a bad guy role. In the novel’s telling he strangles her after she unwittingly throws out a copy of the elusive document, which he’d hidden in a pile of junk mail at someone else’s behest. Althusser’s mental illness and ‘obedient temperament’ make him, at ... ”