For 10 points, identify this author of The Theatre and its Double and formulator of the "Theatre of Cruelty."
One of his earliest works, published in 1913, details how the titular mode of transportation "trembles the pure and mystic silver of the polar star." One of this author's non-fiction pieces describes his painful drug withdrawal when going to see the "land of signs" and the peyote dance in the land of the Tarahumaras. Another work by this author, which includes a letter to the "Legislator on the law of Narcotics" and his play "The Spurt of Blood," is his The Belly Button of Limbo. One of this author's essays describes how "the language of the stage Â… must have something of an importance that dreams have." That essay claims "There is an idea of total spectacle that must be revived" and ends by noting its author will stage a tale by Marquis de Sade and "works of Elizabethan theatre stripped of their texts." For 10 points, identify this author of The Theatre and its Double and formulator of the "Theatre of Cruelty."
One of his earliest works, published in 1913, details how the titular mode of transportation "trembles the pure and mystic silver of the polar star.
Antonin Artaud