Abstract
Amedeo/Ahmed is one of the protagonists of Amara Lakhous’ very successful Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio, a novel that melds together a complex exploration of personal and national identities, of perception versus truth and of the relationship between knowledge and space, all through the life stories of 12 separate individuals.
To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper.
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Parati, G. (2017). Transitive Spaces. In: Migrant Writers and Urban Space in Italy. Italian and Italian American Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55571-3_2
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