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Abstract: The spatial structure of Moravia’s Racconti romani is formed by a circular movement of transgression and return to the starting point. Driven by desire the male protagonists are in a constant search of satisfaction aroused by the vain promises of the fugacious encounters in the big city. The combination of movement and male gaze approaches the stories to the filmic narration. Indeed, cinema is an important reference of the Moravia’s Rome. At the same time this makes the car a central symbol for it represents beyond movement, also desire and male loneliness. On the other hand male identity is caracterised by an anti-social attitude which inscribes the stories in the tradition of Rome’s foundational myth of fratricide and the sonnets of Belli. The concrete historical context may be seen in the massification of the capital in the first half of the Twentieth Century.