| Pinocchio (Illustrated) Contributor(s): Collodi, Carlo (Author), Testa, Fulvio (Illustrator), Eco, Umberto (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1590175883 ISBN-13: 9781590175880 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - General - Juvenile Fiction | Classics - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - Europe |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2012004946 |
| Series: New York Review Children's Collection |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 8.9" W x 11.3" (2.65 lbs) 184 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |