For 10 points, name this French author and filmmaker who adapted the myth of Oedipus in his play The Infernal Machine, and penned the novel Les Enfant Terribles.
The protagonist of a novel by this author hallucinates a crowd of people playing with snowballs outside as he chokes to death on poison fumes. Violet light generated from mercury lamps suffuses the stage in a play by this author, whose third act ends with a woman cradling her lover as he dreams about being attacked by Anubis. This author first encountered one of his recurring characters in an opium-induced haze in an elevator while mourning the death of his lover Raymond Radiguet, and narrated his battle with that apparition in his long poem The Angel (*) Heurtebise. In this author's best-known novel, the siblings Paul and Elisabeth seclude themselves in The Room, where they engage in a form of intense daydreaming known as The Game. For 10 points, name this French author and filmmaker who adapted the myth of Oedipus in his play The Infernal Machine, and penned the novel Les Enfant Terribles.
The protagonist of a novel by this author hallucinates a crowd of people playing with snowballs outside as he chokes to death on poison fumes.
Jean Cocteau [or Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau]