Author: Carlo Collodi
Translator: Hong-rae Kim
Publisher: Sigong Junior
Hardcover / 272 pages.
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About This Book
"Once upon a time, there was ... 'A king!' my little readers will say right
away. No, children, you are wrong. Once upon a time there was a piece of
wood...."
Pinocchio (Le Avventure di Pinocchio) is a children's tale by Carlo Collodi
published in serial form in 1880 and in book form in 1883 in Italy, which has
come to be a classic; it has been filmed over twenty times.
Collodi had not originally intended the work as purely a children's story: in
the original version Pinocchio dies, hanged for his innumerable faults, and only
in the later versions would the story be converted to the famous ending with the
marionette transforming into a child. Many reviewers conclude that Pinocchio,
rather than a children's tale, is a critique of a familiar form, the novel of
education, an allegory of contemporary society, a look at the contrast between
respectability and free instinct in a very severe, formal time. Behind the
optimistic pedagogical appearance, the romance is a sad irony, and sometimes a
satire, on that formal pedagogy and, through this, against the nonsense of these
social manners in general. In style the story was new and modern, opening the
way to many writers of the following century. Its Italian language is peppered
with Florentinisms. Several of the book's concepts have become commonplace,
particularly the proverbial long nose for liars. Pinocchio had an immediate
success, but in upper class families it was not initially regarded as suitable
for "well-educated" children.Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eyes"; pino (pine) +
occhio (eye).
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