Pinocchio / [Carlo Collodi] ; illustrated by Fulvio Testa ; translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock ; introduction by Umberto Eco.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: New York Review children's collectionPublication details: New York : New York Review Books, [2012]Description: 178 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cmISBN:- 1590175883 (hbk.)
- 9781590175880 (hbk.)
- Avventure di Pinocchio. English
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Fiction | Collodi Car | Available | 33111007074426 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
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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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Geoffrey Brock's acclaimed new translation is reissued in an edition for children with over fifty full-page watercolors by Fulvio Testa.
Reprint. Originally published: 2009.
Translation of: Avventure di Pinocchio.
Presents the adventures of Pinocchio, a mischievous wooden puppet, who wants more than anything else to become a real boy.