L'usage de la parole

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Very slight worming to upper right margin of first cover, handsome copy.
Beautiful autograph inscription signed by Nathalie Sarraute to the actress Erika Kralik, companion of stage director Simone Benmussa: "A Erika, ma chérie,a vec toute l'amitié fidèle de Nathalie." (To Erika, my dear, with all the faithful friendship of Nathalie.)
Literary adviser 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 Nathalie Sarraute's recorded voice( and "Pour un oui ou pour un non" in 1987, Pierre Klossowski, Jean Cocteau, Gertrude Stein, Samuel Beckett... She was the companion of the actress Erika Kralik.