The Prompter or The Drawing Room Theatre

KLOSSOWSKI, Pierre. The Prompter or The Drawing Room Theatre. Novel. Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1960. First original edition. 8vo, illustrated publisher's wrappers with hand-colored architectural engraving depicting a spiral staircase. EXCEPTIONAL COPY WITH AUTHOR'S AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION to Milena Milani (1917-2013), Italian writer, poet and artist, prominent figure of the Italian cultural avant-garde of the postwar period, companion of Carlo Cardazzo and protagonist of the Venetian artistic scene. The dedication, written in blue ink on the half-title, reads: 'For Milena Milani [...] in very respectful homage / Pierre Klossowski'. Central novel in Klossowski's production, continuation of the themes explored in Roberte ce soir. Provenance of great interest for the history of twentieth-century Franco-Italian culture.