Pour un oui ou pour un non

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Light foxing to lower left corner of first cover, handsome copy.
Affectionate and fine autograph inscription signed by Nathalie Sarraute to her great friend the director, playwright and writer Simone Benmussa: "A Simone, avec qui nous nous comprenons parfois, miraculeusement, avec toute l'affection et l'amitié qu'elle sait. Nathalie." (To Simone, with whom we sometimes understand each other, miraculously, with all the affection and friendship she knows. Nathalie.)
Assisted by her companion Erika Kralik, Simone Benmussa created the staging of this play by Nathalie Sarraute in February 1986 at the Comédie des Champs-Elysées.
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 theatre, the cultural service and the Cahiers of the Renaud-Barrault company. She adapted for the stage 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.