About the book: 1956 / In "Roman Stories" the author shows bankrupt shopkeepers, losers, amateurs of urban crime, waiters, taxi drivers, hairdressers, street musicians, the unemployed. This is not Rome and not the people, this is a fish tank in which the water has not been changed for a long time; gasping fish swirl and blow bubbles. Preface by Ilya Ehrenburg Alberto Moravia. Racconti romani. 1954. Translation from Italian by Alberto Moravia. Roman stories. Publishing house of foreign literature. Moscow. 1956.