Novel from the sturdy architrave, which runs away as fast as a train and reads in one breath, The mafia does not exist is configured as a literary product well assembled by Pellitteri, skilled to master the tools of the trade that demonstrates to possess: polished style, dynamic, rapid, modus scribendi denoting good knowledge of our language, stylistic trait that rests its foundation on the psychological examination of the characters. Although in most of the text direct speeches pay pledge to descriptive or introspective parts, the pace remains high. The characters, well planted in the fertile narrative soil, move with naturalness and interact in a genuine way. Although the author has recourse to certain topoi of the genre, the originality of the work is without prejudice to guesswork.Some keywords, which emerge from the analysis of the text and which lead to the issues investigated, suggesting a second level of reading, more articulate and profound than the main one of pure entertainment, are objective, error, decision, certainty, ambiguity, path, (in)awareness, tenacity, past, consciousness, fear, importance, (in)understanding, firmness, tradition, change, future, possibility, hope.
