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ROMAN TALES, by Alberto Moravia (229 pp.; Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $3.75), seems to concern the ignoblest Romans of them all. Moravia's people live in small tenement rooms, work in brickyards, junkyards and poor taverns by the summer-shrunken Tiber. On Moravia's showing, at least, it is easy to see how their ancestors managed to run the world with very little show of conscience. Yet, though Moravia's characters lack conscience-though they are bent on mean personal advantage and are forever trying to trip their fellows into the gutter-they are all also victims themselves...
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