Edizioni E/O Scontro di civilta per un ascensore a piazza Vittorio

Murder in Piazza Vittorio: an Italian comedy written by an author of Algerian origin.

This novel by Amara Lakhous is a clever and irresistible mixture of satire of customs and detective novel based on a crackling dialectal polyphony reminiscent of Gaddi (the Pasticciaccio stands in the secret background of the scene like a tutelary deity). The small multicultural crowd that animates the events of a building in Piazza Vittoria surprises with the truth and precision of the anthropological analysis, the liveliness and apparent lightness of the story. Starting from the murder of a shady character nicknamed "the Gladiator", an investigation unfolds that allows us to penetrate the universe of the most multi-ethnic of Rome's neighborhoods: Piazza Vittorio. Perhaps it is enough to stage fragments of daily life intertwined around the elevator, punctually at the origin of many condominium disputes, to understand the focal point of the feared, discussed, denied or invoked clash of civilizations that haunts our present and our future and inflames the political, social and religious-cultural debate of our times.