Racconti romani

Roman Tales ( Racconti romani ) is a series of short stories by the Italian author Alberto Moravia.

There are short, each of approximately equal length narratives (except Il terrore di Roma double length ), which were originally published in the Milan daily Il Corriere della Sera and 1954 and 1959 collected in two volumes ( Racconti romani and Nuovi racconti romani ) issued by the publishing house Bompiani. The first volume, entitled Racconti romani contains 61 short stories and has been translated into German.

All stories are in Rome and surroundings and reflect the lives of ordinary people in the postwar period. Here the characters are in the foreground. All episodes were written in the first person singular, and in every story slips the author into the skin of another person, wherein these invariably male figures to traders, taxi drivers, Barbedienungen, hairdressers, petty criminals or just regular guests a bar, etc. is, so the common people of Rome (Roma POPOLANA ) ..

The result is a snapshot from Rome in the early 1950s, with their character traits and their everyday habits, problems and desires.

Expenditure

The German edition of "Roman Tales " was published in the collection Luchterhand, ISBN 978-3-630-62180-7 and Rowohlt paperback, ISBN 978-3-499-10705-4. Originally, the stories, the girl from the Tiber were only 41 under the title - Stories of Rome published.

There is also a bilingual edition with nine short stories while dtv -Verlag, ISBN 978-3-423-09269-2. The Italian edition was published in 2001 Racconti Romani at Bompiani new, ISBN 88-452-4897-6. Ten of the stories were published in 1959 by the Italian television channel RAI Television as radio plays. Some Italian publishers have now published audio books of stories.

Films

The story material was also the subject of several films.