This author’s aim to capture “life itself” failed because of a dialectic involving death and repetition, according to an essay on the “Closure of Representation.” A concept that this author called a “living whirlwind that devours the darkness” inspired a 2011 book-length “reckoning” on art by Maggie Nelson. This author’s play To Have Done with the Judgement of God is the origin of Deleuze and Guattari’s term “body without organs.” This author’s avant-garde (*) adaptation of Percy Shelley’s play The Cenci ran for only 17 performances in 1935. (10[1])This author of the play Jet of Blood included the essay “No More Masterpieces” in a collection that argues that theater should be difficult (10[1])and should remind us that “we are not free.” For 10 points, name this French author whose collection The Theatre and Its Double presents his idea of the Theatre of Cruelty. ■END■