Roman tales
Roman Tales ( Racconti romani ) is a series of short stories by the Italian author Alberto Moravia .
These are short stories, each of about the same length (with the exception of Il terrore di Roma, which is twice as long), originally published in the Milan daily Il Corriere della Sera and collected in two volumes in 1954 and 1959 ( Racconti romani and Nuovi racconti romani ) published by the Bompiani publishing house. The first volume, entitled Racconti romani, contains 61 short stories and has been translated into German.
All stories take place in and around Rome and reflect the life of ordinary people in the post-war period. Their characters are in the foreground. All episodes were written first-person, and in each story the author slips into the shoes of a different person, with these male characters being vendors, taxi drivers, bar waiters, hairdressers, petty criminals or just regulars at a bar, etc. acts, so the common people of Rome ( Roma popolana ).
The result is a snapshot of Rome in the early 1950s, with their character traits and their everyday habits, problems and desires.
expenditure
The German edition “Römische Erzählungen” is published in the Luchterhand collection, ISBN 978-3-630-62180-7 and by Rowohlt Taschenbuchverlag, ISBN 978-3-499-10705-4 . Originally only 41 of the stories were published under the title Die Mädchen vom Tiber - Stories from Rome .
There is also a bilingual edition with nine short stories from dtv-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-423-09269-2 . The Italian edition Racconti Romani was republished by Bompiani in 2001, ISBN 88-452-4897-6 . Ten of the stories were released as radio plays on the Italian television broadcaster RAI Television in 1959. Some Italian publishers have now published audio books of stories.
Film adaptations
The story material also became the subject of several film adaptations.
- In 1954 the first short story "Fanatico" formed the starting point of the plot of the film Shame that you are a Kanaille (original title: "Peccato che sia una canaglia") by Alessandro Blasetti with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni .
- In 1955 the film "Four Hearts in Rome" (original title: "Racconti Romani") by Gianni Franciolini was released . Several stories from the collection have been merged here.
- 1960 came out "When life beckons" (original title: "La giornata balorda") by Mauro Bolognini . Here, too, short stories were used.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Website of the Italian radio station Rai-Radiofonia: Radioscrigno ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Spiegel 46/1962
- ^ The time of January 23, 1958
- ^ Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Antonio de Curtis
- ^ Internet Movie Database
- ^ Internet Movie Database
literature
- Camilucci, Marcello. “Roma ei Racconti romani di Moravia”, Studi romani , 6: 5 (1958: sett./ott.) Pp. 547-561
- Lauta, Gianluca. La scrittura di Moravia: lingua e stile dagli Indifferenti ai Racconti romani . Comunicazione e scienze umane, 1st Milan: F. Angeli, 2005.
- Piero Cudini in the introduction by Moravia, Alberto, Racconti romani . Tascabili Bompiani. Milano: Bompiani, 2005.
- Moravia, Alberto, Rocco Capozzi, and Mario B. Mignone. Homage to Moravia . Filibrary Series, no.5. Stony Brook, NY: Forum Italicum, 1993.