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Pinocchio (Illustrated)

Pinocchio (Illustrated)

Testa, Fulvio
Eco, Umberto
Collodi, Carlo

Hardcover

Series: New York Review Children's Collection

General Juvenile Fiction

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 1590175883
ISBN13: 9781590175880
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Oct 9 2012
Pages: 184
Weight: 2.65
Height: 0.90 Width: 8.90 Depth: 11.30
Language: English
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.

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