1980 year. Paris. Do a philosopher and literary critic of Ролан Bart die in a hospital chamber - he was hammered together by a machine: tragic chance or murder? Among suspected there is Michel Foucault, Jacques Деррида, Жиль Делез, Yulia Кристева is all intellectual color of Europe of the second half of the XX century, and yet are partisans from the "Red brigades" and some secret society.A possible aim of killers is a manuscript of гуру of linguistics Roman Якобсона about seventh, magic, functions language. The possessor of secret will get possibility to affect consciousness of man, and - to become the world ruler: to be select, to provoke revolutions, tempt. As history played off in the decision months of electioneering, we understand what spheres a possible customer of crime is in."Seventh function of language" of Laurent Binet, laureate Гонкуровской bonuses (2010), it is possible to examine and as a parody on detective and spy novels, and as a sly puzzle for readers, searching connection between fiction and reality. Whatever reading ability of author to operate styles and cultural кодами was, balancing between mass and elite literature, nobody will leave to indifferent.Roman is marked bonuses "Prix du roman Fnac" and "Prix Interallié" and was translated into thirty languages. Drawing of book in France made 200 000 copies.2th edition, corrected.Contains an unprintable bad language