More Roman Tales
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Wear and tear. Chipped along spine and folds. Page Condition: Yellowed/ foxed. Markings: previous owner sticker on FEP. Binding condition: Binding intact.
Rome pulses with life in Alberto Moravia's More Roman Tales, a vivid collection of short stories set against the backdrop of post-war Italy's Eternal City. The anthology chronicles the daily struggles, desires, and contradictions of ordinary Romans — taxi drivers, servants, petty criminals, and lovers — each caught in the web of a rapidly modernising society still haunted by ancient customs and class divisions. Translated with precision and sensitivity by Angus Davidson, the stories crackle with sharp dialogue and acute social observation, capturing a city in transition with unflinching clarity. Moravia, one of the towering figures of 20th-century Italian literature, brings his signature blend of psychological realism and social critique to bear on the Roman working class, illuminating the universal through the intensely particular. His prose is spare yet charged, each tale a compressed drama that reveals character through action and desire rather than introspection. More Roman Tales stands as a companion to his earlier Roman Tales, together forming an essential portrait of mid-century Rome — and the reader is left wondering whether the city's eternal contradictions were ever truly resolved.
Author: Alberto Moravia
Format: Hardback
Published: 1963, Secker & Warburg
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Wear and tear. Chipped along spine and folds. Page Condition: Yellowed/ foxed. Markings: previous owner sticker on FEP. Binding condition: Binding intact.
Rome pulses with life in Alberto Moravia's More Roman Tales, a vivid collection of short stories set against the backdrop of post-war Italy's Eternal City. The anthology chronicles the daily struggles, desires, and contradictions of ordinary Romans — taxi drivers, servants, petty criminals, and lovers — each caught in the web of a rapidly modernising society still haunted by ancient customs and class divisions. Translated with precision and sensitivity by Angus Davidson, the stories crackle with sharp dialogue and acute social observation, capturing a city in transition with unflinching clarity. Moravia, one of the towering figures of 20th-century Italian literature, brings his signature blend of psychological realism and social critique to bear on the Roman working class, illuminating the universal through the intensely particular. His prose is spare yet charged, each tale a compressed drama that reveals character through action and desire rather than introspection. More Roman Tales stands as a companion to his earlier Roman Tales, together forming an essential portrait of mid-century Rome — and the reader is left wondering whether the city's eternal contradictions were ever truly resolved.