Paul Valéry et l'enfant éléphant - Flaubert le précurseur

First edition printed on ordinary paper.
Handsome copy.
Very fine full-page autograph inscription signed by Nathalie Sarraute to her great friend the director, playwright and writer Simone Benmussa : "Pour Simone, dont je m'émerveille sans cesse, dont tant de vie irradie qui me fait revivre... comme lui dire tout ce que je voudrais et qu'elle comprend et tout si bien. Nathalie. Le 11 février 1986." (For Simone, whom I marvel at ceaselessly, from whom so much life radiates that makes me live again... how to tell her all that I would like to and that she understands so well. Nathalie. February 11, 1986.)
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.