The Italian philosopher indeed appears as an avuncular mastermind alongside larger-than-life versions of the stars of 1980s literary theory and philosophy. I wanted to have fun and to twist the rope of truth until it broke.”įrom Paris to Bologna, Venice to New York, they uncover an international conspiracy and a secret society that could have been drawn from the pages of a novel by Umberto Eco. “In HHhH I wanted to search for historical truth and in this one it was much more playful. “It’s two faces of the same obsession, which is the complicated relationship between reality and fiction,” says Binet. His latest novel, The 7th Function of Language (translated by Sam Taylor), is another historical thriller circling the same questions, but approaching them from the opposite direction. The Frenchman’s novel about the blurred line between fiction and reality, The 7th Function of Language, is all the more poignant in the era of Trump, Le Pen and fake news. Richard Lee, Laurent Binet: ‘I’ll vote Macron, but I hate having to do it’.
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