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.
Susan Briziarelli is currently Associate Provost of Faculty Support and Global Affairs and Associate Professor of Italian at Adelphi University, New York. She earned her undergraduate degree in Italian at Rutgers University and her Ph.D. in Italian Literature at Yale University. Her research interests are in the area of twentieth-century women writers, with publications on Elsa Morante and Grazia Deledda. She has also published on Italo Calvino and the detective fiction of Leonardo Sciascia. She is a co-translator, with Giovana Miceli Jeffries, of Clara Sereni's 'Casalinghitudine' ('Keeping House').
