- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: NYRB Classics; New edition edition (7 May 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1590172892
- ISBN-13: 978-1590172896
- Product Dimensions: 12.8 x 1.1 x 20.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 661,229 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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. 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. 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. 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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Carlo Collodi (1826-1890) is the pen name of Carlo Lorenzini. He worked as a journalist before publishing The Adventures of Pinocchio in 1883. Translated into more than ninety languages, Pinocchio has never been out of print.
Umberto Eco is an Italian philosopher and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa) and his many essays.
Geoffrey Brock is a poet and the translator of many books, including Disaffections by Cesare Pavese and The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco. He teaches in the University of Arkansas Programs in Creative Writing and Translation in Fayetteville.
Umberto Eco is an Italian philosopher and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa) and his many essays.
Geoffrey Brock is a poet and the translator of many books, including Disaffections by Cesare Pavese and The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco. He teaches in the University of Arkansas Programs in Creative Writing and Translation in Fayetteville.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I just finished this book. A very quick easy read. I'm 34 and I never read this story and I have to say I absolutly loved it. As a kid we were all told if we tell lies our noses will get bigger. I always took this tale to be a kids book, which it is to an extent, but its layered and so full of gifts that I could only imagine that Collodi was possessed or just straight out blessed with genius. This book covers in-depth murder, suicide, religion, emotions, greed, good and evil. The writing is so fluid that its hard to believe this tale is nearly 150 years old. The character of Pinocchio is so full of contradicitions, one moment a complete little sefish b*****d, the next a sensitive soul who cries at the drop of a hat. Like all of us he is multifaceted. I laughed, I was shocked, I was moved. The first book I have really enjoyed since Patrick Suskinds "Perfume". Shame Collodi did not write more. Great essay at the end of this book about Pinocchio's cultural influences and a rather unnerving creepy surreal Lynchian book cover.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having been used to the saccharine and sentimental "versions" of Pinocchio, it was refreshing to return (for the first time since my own childhood) to the authentic text.
This new translation is faithful to the original, and just as edgy. The health warning is in the cover illustration; the more you look at it, the more disturbing it is. And that's true of the full Pinocchio. Shorn of illustration apart from a scattering of the original simple images, this very Italian morality tale becomes adult reading...required reading for politicians?
This new translation is faithful to the original, and just as edgy. The health warning is in the cover illustration; the more you look at it, the more disturbing it is. And that's true of the full Pinocchio. Shorn of illustration apart from a scattering of the original simple images, this very Italian morality tale becomes adult reading...required reading for politicians?
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Forget the saccharine Disney movie, though the interest in comparing the touch points between the Dinsy cartoon and this story is inevitable as you read. What is presented here is the story written originally in episodes in a 19th century Italian journal for children and later consolidated into a book. The numerous short chapters (26 over 160 pages) are sandwiched between a short introduction by Umberto Eco which underlines how internationally popular the written novel is based on the number of translations made and a longer Afterword by Rebecca West, which delves deeper into the history of the story and the many films that owe a debt to the story, as well as comparing with the Disney version.
What of the novel itself? Well any expectation of an easygoing children's story will be dispelled from the opening chapters where the moral issues are quickly depicted as the puppet with little care and consideration finds himself the endless victim of his own selfishness and naivete at the hands of others. The pairing of a very fairy tale storyline with many satirical scenes around the fickleness and selfishness of children creates a continual mood of dark neo-realism which gives the book its edgy feel and may explain why it still enjoys such popularity.
P.S. Also a great cover reflecting the above comments!
What of the novel itself? Well any expectation of an easygoing children's story will be dispelled from the opening chapters where the moral issues are quickly depicted as the puppet with little care and consideration finds himself the endless victim of his own selfishness and naivete at the hands of others. The pairing of a very fairy tale storyline with many satirical scenes around the fickleness and selfishness of children creates a continual mood of dark neo-realism which gives the book its edgy feel and may explain why it still enjoys such popularity.
P.S. Also a great cover reflecting the above comments!
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