Pinocchio (New York Review Books)
by Carlo Collodi
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Author: Carlo CollodiTranslator: Geoffrey Brock
Introduction: Umberto Eco
Afterword: Rebecca West
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-11-18
ISBN: 1590172892
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Book Reviews of Pinocchio (New York Review Books)
Book Review: A Fine New American Translation of Collodi Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Summary of Pinocchio (New York Review Books)
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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