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Pinocchio (New York Review Books Classics) |  | Author: Carlo Collodi
Creators: Geoffrey Brock, Umberto Eco, Rebecca West
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 84212
Media: Paperback
Pages: 208
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1590172892
Dewey Decimal Number: 853.8
EAN: 9781590172896
ASIN: 1590172892
Publication Date: November 18, 2008
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Product 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.
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 A Fine New American Translation of Collodi Classic September 13, 2009
Nicholas A. Deutsch (New York, NY USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'll leave it to others to assess the accuracy of Geoffrey Brock's new English translation of THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO. What I can say is that it reads really well for a North American reader, pungent and precise and funny. What an astonishing book! If you've never read it, or if you've only read it in "adapted" versions, here's a good opportunity to enjoy a faithful rendition. Note, however, that apart from a few decorations reproduced from a 1911 edition, this is NOT an illustrated version of the novel.
This edition comes with a brief, charming introduction by Umberto Eco, and a longer afterword by Rebecca West - full of interesting information and insights, but perhaps too ambitious: it reads more like an outline for a book than a self-sufficient essay. An excellent complement (and corrective) to West is Tim Parks's review of this edition in the New York Review of Books (30 April 2009 - there's a link from the Wikipedia entry on Carlo Collodi). Parks lays out the political, social, religious and personal background to Collodi's book clearly and entertainingly, and his article really increased my understanding and enjoyment.
Finally, consider checking out the recently issued DVD of English composer Jonathan Dove's full-length opera, THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO, a fantastically colorful and remarkably faithful adaptation of this classic novel.
 Not Disney May 10, 2009
Frank A. Stephenson (Phoenix)
5 out of 23 found this review helpful
This is not the Pinocchio of Walt Disney (the talking cricket gets whacked on page 15 with a hammer), rather this is the Pinocchio Disney used to create his version. Knowing that will make you appreciate Walt even more.
I'm not saying this is a bad read; on the contrary, I enjoyed this book, even though I caught myself comparing the storyline with the Disney movie way too often. There are many characters, and somehow Carlo Collodi has managed to make all of them not only essential, but interesting. The book is a magical tale about life; it's about adventure, comedy, dissapointment, shear joy, and imagination.
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