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In this man's last lectures, collected as "The  Preparation of the Novel," this writer compared himself to Proust, noting that both were prompted to turn from introspection to novelizing by the deaths of their mothers. This author thus defined the novel as "any work in which egotism is transcended." This author analyzed the cover of an issue of Paris Match that featured a saluting black soldier in a French military uniform as an example of the process of myth-making. Another work of criticism by this author discusses Mallarmé, Valery, and Proust as writers who tried to effect the title action; in that work this man rejected the idea of a single intended meaning, the uncovering of which is the object of reading. For ten points, name this French novelist and literary critic, the author of Mythologies and The Death of the Author.
In this man's last lectures, collected as "The  Preparation of the Novel," this writer compared himself to Proust, noting that both were prompted to turn from introspection to novelizing by the deaths of their mothers.
Roland {Barthes}