Racconti romani

Roman Tales

Author

Alberto Moravia

Language

Italian

Year

1954

Country

Italy

Genre

Short Story Collection / Tales

modern europe

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Roman Tales is a series of sixty-one short stories written by the Italian author, Alberto Moravia. Written and published initially in the Italian newspaper, Il Corriere della Sera, they were published as a collection in 1954 by Bompiani. All of the stories are set in Rome or its surroundings after World War II and focus on 'the common people of Rome'. The characters in these stories tend to be the unemployed, ex-convicts, waiters, drivers, con artists, thieves and petty criminals, the average man and the lower classes aspiring to climb out of poverty.