His first book opens with a discussion of H?ert's technique of using obscenities in every issue of Le P?e Duchene and ends with a chapter describing literature as "the utopia of language."  
This man wrote an essay on the trial of Gaston Dominici which described his conviction as "the triumph of literature," while another of his essays contrasts the Nautilus in Verne's novels with Rimbaud's Drunken Boat.  His first book opens with a discussion of H?ert's technique of using obscenities in every issue of Le P?e Duchene and ends with a chapter describing literature as "the utopia of language."  One of this man's most famous essays criticizes the belief that texts have "a single 'theological' meaning," and instead posits that meaning should be "disentangled" rather than "deciphered" as a result of replacing the title figure with "the scriptor."  That essay by this man opens by discussing Balzac's story "Sarassine," as did this author's book S/Z.  FTPE, name this French literary critic who wrote Writing Degree Zero and "The Death of the Author."
This man wrote an essay on the trial of Gaston Dominici which described his conviction as "the triumph of literature," while another of his essays contrasts the Nautilus in Verne's novels with Rimbaud's Drunken Boat.  
Roland Barthes [BART]