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The Adventures of Pinocchio

By Collodi, Carlo|Eco, Umberto|Brock, Geoffrey
The Adventures of Pinocchio

Details

Authors: Collodi, Carlo|Eco, Umberto|Brock, Geoffrey
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paperback
GTIN13: 9781590172896
ISBN10: 1590172892
Page Count: 208
Dimensions: 5.01x0.46x7.97
Publisher: New York Review of Books

Strand Notes

Though one of the best-known books in the world, Pinocchio at the same time remains unknown - certainly in America, where it is linked in many minds to the Walt Disney movie thatbears little relation to Carlo Collodi's splendid original. That story - is about, of course, a puppet who succeeds after many trials and tribulations in becoming a "real" boy, and is hardly the sentimental and morally improving tale it has been taken for. To the contrary, Pinocchio is one of the great subversives of the written page, a madcap genius, hurtled along at the pleasure and mercy of his desires. The book is a sublime anomaly.

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Though one of the best-known books in the world, Pinocchio at the same time remains unknown--linked in many minds to the Walt Disney movie that bears little relation to Carlo Collodi's splendid original. That story is of course about a puppet who, after many trials, succeeds in becoming a "real boy." Yet it is hardly a sentimental or morally improving tale. To the contrary, Pinocchio is one of the great subversives of the written page, a madcap genius hurtled along at the pleasure and mercy of his desires, a renegade who in many ways resembles his near contemporary Huck Finn.

Pinocchio the novel, no less than Pinocchio the character, is one of the great inventions of modern literature. A sublime anomaly, the book merges the traditions of the picaresque, of street theater, and of folk and fairy tales into a work that is at once adventure, satire, and a powerful enchantment that anticipates surrealism and magical realism. Thronged with memorable characters and composed with the fluid but inevitable logic of a dream, Pinocchio is an endlessly fascinating work that is essential equipment for life.

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