For 10 points, name this author of S/Z, Mythologies, and "The Death of the Author."
This author claimed that, for Voltaire, traveling was "to manifest an immobility" in his "The Last Happy Writer," having earlier noted that he preferred Sartre to Flaubert and Gide, because "no one ever said [Sartre] wrote well," in advocating a more "scientific" literary criticism. The latter essay responded to Raymond Picard's complaint about his ahistorical approach to finding new semiological meanings in his three (*) Racine essays, an approach he had altered by the time he was using hermeneutic, proairetic, semic, symbolic, and referential codes to analyze Balzac's "Sarrasine." Another of his works notes that Elle magazine's presentation of female authors lists their total books and children as if they were equivalent and describes the bourgeois-ization of writer's vacations, while his most famous essay advocates reducing a work's creator as a scriptor so as to avoid the latter's "interpretative tyranny." For 10 points, name this author of S/Z, Mythologies, and "The Death of the Author."
This author claimed that, for Voltaire, traveling was "to manifest an immobility" in his "The Last Happy Writer," having earlier noted that he preferred Sartre to Flaubert and Gide, because "no one ever said [Sartre] wrote well," in advocating a more "scientific" literary criticism.
Roland {Barthes}