{"id":592,"date":"2017-01-30T14:28:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T14:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/?p=592"},"modified":"2017-01-30T14:28:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T14:28:07","slug":"laurent-binet-creative-writing-reading-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/2017\/01\/30\/laurent-binet-creative-writing-reading-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurent Binet &#8211; Creative Writing Reading Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Creative Writing Reading Series<\/h2>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">Laurent Binet<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Thursday 9 February 2017<\/em><\/h3>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center\">6.30pm at Reid Hall, in the Salle de Conf\u00e9rence<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center\">4 rue de Chevreuse, Montparnasse, Paris 75006<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center\">All welcome.<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Award-winner French author Laurent Binet will be reading from and talking about his book <em>\u2018The 7<sup>th<\/sup> function of language\u2019<\/em> (2015), a story about Roland Barthes and the power of language. Binet\u2019s novel starts with Barthes\u2019 death, and assumes the death is an assassination. In the political and intellectual world of the time, everyone is a suspect\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cA brilliantly erudite comedy that recalls Flaubert\u2019s <em>Parrot<\/em> and <em>The Name of the Rose<\/em>\u2014with more than a dash of <em>The Da Vinci Code<\/em>\u2014<em>The Seventh Function of Language<\/em> takes us from the caf\u00e9s 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.\u201d \u2013 Macmillan Publishers<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Laurent Binet was born in Paris. His first novel, \u2018<em>HHhH\u2019<\/em>, was named one of the fifty best books of 2015 by <em>The New York Times<\/em> and received the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman. He is a professor at the University of Paris III, where he lectures on French literature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creative Writing Reading Series Laurent Binet\u00a0 Thursday 9 February 2017 6.30pm at Reid Hall, in the Salle de Conf\u00e9rence 4 rue de Chevreuse, Montparnasse, Paris 75006 All welcome. Award-winner French author Laurent Binet will be reading from and talking about his book \u2018The 7th function of language\u2019 (2015), a story about Roland Barthes and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112],"tags":[21640,49768,18584,768],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/paris-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}