Author(s): Carlo Collodi,Geoffrey Brock,Professor of Semiotics Umberto Eco,Fulvio Testa
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 184
Publisher: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Language: English
Date Published: 2012-10-09
Dimensions: 226 x 287 x 23mm
Publication City/Country: New York, NY, United States
Edition: Illustrated
Illustrations: Illustrations, unspecified
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. Geoffrey Brock's acclaimed new translation is reissued in an edition for children with over fifty full-page watercolors by Fulvio Testa.
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 184
Publisher: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Language: English
Date Published: 2012-10-09
Dimensions: 226 x 287 x 23mm
Publication City/Country: New York, NY, United States
Edition: Illustrated
Illustrations: Illustrations, unspecified
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. Geoffrey Brock's acclaimed new translation is reissued in an edition for children with over fifty full-page watercolors by Fulvio Testa.
Book Info | |
Author | Carlo Collodi, Geoffrey Brock, Professor of Semiotics Umberto Eco, Fulvio Testa |
Date Published | 2012-10-09 |
Dimensions | 226 x 287 x 23mm |
Edition | Illustrated |
First Author | Carlo Collodi |
Format | Hardback |
Illustrations | Illustrations, unspecified |
ISBN | 9781590175880 |
Language | English |
No. of Pages | 184 |
Publication City/Country | New York, NY, United States |
Publisher | NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS |
Pinocchio (Illustrated)
- Carlo Collodi
- Hardback
- Publisher: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
- ISBN: 9781590175880
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