About This Book
The suspicious death of literary critic Roland Barthes in 1980 Paris reveals the secret history of the French intelligentsia, plunging a hapless police detective into the depths of literary theory as it was documented in a famed linguist's lost manuscript.
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9h 24m
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180 WPM
6h 46m
average reader
250 WPM
4h 50m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 101,475 wordsπ
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7 h 31 min
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11 h 17 min
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5 h 38 min
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