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Author of the Prix Goncourt-winning and National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated HHhH, Binet starts by assuming that literary theorist Roland Barthes's 1980 death after being hit by a laundry truck was in fact murder. Police superintendent Jacques Bayard senses something amiss and forcibly enlists the help of young linguistics lecturer Simon Herzog, who impresses him with an on-the-spot analysis of his life worthy of...Log In or Sign Up to Read More