L'usage de la parole

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Light foxing to lower left corner of front cover, handsome copy.
Fine autograph inscription signed by Nathalie Sarraute to her great friend the director, playwright and writer Simone Benmussa : "A Simone, qui n'aura jamais fini de m'étonner et de m'émerveiller avec tant d'affection, d'amitié, de fous-rires... Nathalie." (To Simone, who will never cease to astonish and marvel me with so much affection, friendship, and laughter... 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... She was the companion of actress Erika Kralik.