Giobbe covatta
Dio li fa e poi li accoppa

There are books that stay in your heart, books that leave a mark.

There are books that will accompany you throughout your life, books that transcend the mere title of books and become travel companions.

Books that are life teachers, Books with a capital B, and BOOKS written all in uppercase.

And this BOOK, or rather WORK, or even EIGHTH WONDER OF CIVILIZATION, is all this and more.

Giobbe Covatta once again proves to be the greatest comic/absurd author of the last THOUSAND years (not one less, not one more), gifting us this BOOK, or rather WORK, or even EIGHTH WONDER OF CIVILIZATION, derived from a theatrical show.

Plot: Rosario Sansa, a poor Neapolitan layabout, during a sultry summer night, can't sleep because of mosquitoes, mosquitoes as large as aircraft carriers, so large that to avoid accidents you need to file a flight plan.

During this night, Rosario will receive a visit from GOD, and after getting over the initial shock, he will be informed by GOD that GOD intends to launch a new universal flood, and Rosario must be a modern-day Noah and build the Ark within seven days. A trivial task, you might say.

Instead, Rosario will try to convince GOD of the goodness of the human race and to abstain from such a brutal decision.

Here you can already sense a profound socio-philosophical angle: the average man, or even more average than average, worse than Fantozzi, will try to persuade GOD, The Supreme, The Almighty GOD, to spare a civilization that has given him nothing, a civilization that isn't even aware of his enormous gesture, a civilization so inept and so yearning for the coming of GOD, that when GOD arrives, they don't believe it and think it’s a candid camera.

And it's immediately satire: The AUTHOR navigates between politics, sexuality, television, soccer, and more politics, fully embodying the thoughts of the most average of the average man, of Rosario, who comically attempts to keep up with a world he doesn't understand and isn't aware of his existence. Rosario is sacrificing for YOU, YOU who are reading, trying to convince GOD to spare you! To spare all of us! Rosario is an unsung hero, unrecognized, without a Roger Waters to extol his exploits or a street bearing his name.

In these seven days, Rosario will try everything, forming a strong friendship with GOD, until the last day when Rosario realizes that...

It's up to you to continue.

(N.d.R) (Note from the Reviewer)= although I may seem a bit exaggerated at certain points, I can't help but regard it as one of the highest achievements ever reached by humanity, on par with the moon landing and the book "Pancreas- Transplant of the Heart Book", also by Covatta.

But that is another story.