First edition of which no deluxe copies were printed. Handsome copy. Grateful and humorous autograph inscription signed by Carlos Fuentes to his friend the director, playwright and writer Simone Benmussa: "A Simone, madame-manager-soeur-maîtresse de cet texte, je t'embrasse. Carlos" (To Simone, madame-manager-sister-mistress of this text, I embrace you. Carlos) Literary advisor to the Jean-Louis Barrault - Madeleine Renaud Company, then, in 1957, editor-in-chief of Cahiers Renaud-Barrault, Simone Benmussa also directed, from the Odéon theater, the cultural service and the Cahiers of the Renaud-Barrault company. She adapted for the theater works by her friend Nathalie Sarraute including "Enfance" in 1984 (with the recorded voice of Nathalie Sarraute) and "Pour un oui ou pour un non" in 1987, Pierre Klossowski, Jean Cocteau, Gertrude Stein, Samuel Beckett...