A re-evaluation of the works by this novelist, dramatist, and critic of turn-of-the-century Milan. The issue of Butti's place in literary history leads to a critical definition of the minor writer in relation to his public.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Butti and His Contemporaries
- I. Gabriele D'Annunzio
- II. Henrik Ibsen
- III. Edgar Allan Poe
- Chapter Two: Il Castello del Sogno
- I. Referentiality and Pastiche
- II. Nietzsche and the Problem of Time
- Chapter Three: The Literature of Failure
- I. The Author and His Public
- II. Language and its Discontents
- Conclusion: The Minor Writer
- Selected Bibliography