"La narrativa di Amara Lakhous e i suoi intertesti"

This article focuses on the narrative work of Amara Lakhous, the Algerian writer using since 2006 Italian as language of literary expression, and well known to a wider readership in Italy and abroad especially for his novel "Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a Piazza Vittorio". This study tries to see if this novel could be defined as a rewriting of C.E. Gadda's novel "Quer pasticciaccio brutto in Via Merulana"; furthermore, other aspects of intertextuality are examined, first of all the structural and thematic similarities with Italian comedy movies from the 1950s to the 1970s: and aspect which until now has not been sufficiently examined and which seems to offer the main access tu Lakhous' narrative style.