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Pinocchio
Umberto Eco (Introduction by), Geoffrey Brock (Traduttore), Rebecca West (Afterword by), Carlo Collodi, Roberto Innocenti Staff (Illustratore)
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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Cartaceo
Generi
Children's Books, Fiction and Literature
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New York Review Books (Editore)
(User: MWeldon)
Pacchetto
November 2008
Inizia il: 2008-11-10
Termina il: 2008-11-30
In vendita
2008-11-18
Paese
Jungtinės Valstijos
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