Enfance

First edition on ordinary paper.
Two light tears at foot of spine.
Autograph inscription signed by Nathalie Sarraute to her great friend the director, playwright and writer Simone Benmussa: "A Simone, avec toute l'amitié qu'elle sait. Nathalie." (To Simone, with all the friendship she knows. Nathalie.)
Literary advisor to the Jean-Louis Barrault - Madeleine Renaud Company, then, in 1957, editor-in-chief of the Cahiers Renaud-Barrault, Simone Benmussa also directed, from the Odéon theatre, the cultural service and the Cahiers of the Renaud-Barrault company. She adapted for the theatre 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...
On the first sixty pages, our copy contains, in the margins of certain paragraphs and in pencil, marks and reading notes as well as dog-eared pages by Simone Benmussa in preparation for the theatrical adaptation she would create a few months later in collaboration with Nathalie Sarraute.