Pinocchio

Carlo Collodi, Umberto Eco, Geoffrey Brock

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Italian

NYRB Classics
01 November 2008

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

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.

By: Carlo Collodi
Introduction by: Umberto Eco
Translated by: Geoffrey Brock
Imprint: NYRB Classics
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 215g
ISBN: 9781590172896
ISBN 10: 1590172892
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 01 November 2008
Recommended Age: From 8 to 12 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Carlo Collodi (1826-1890) is the pen name of Carlo Lorenzini. He worked as a journalist before publishing The Adventures of Pinocchio in 1883. Translated into more than ninety languages, Pinocchio has never been out of print. Umberto Eco is an Italian philosopher and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa) and his many essays. Geoffrey Brock is a poet and the translator of many books, including Disaffections by Cesare Pavese and The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco. He teaches in the University of Arkansas Programs in Creative Writing and Translation in Fayetteville.

Reviews for Pinocchio

The book has the manic energy of 'Candide', as it rushes from one extreme situation to another. The new translation by Geoffrey Brock is wonderfully faithful to Collodi's speed and vigour. Until now, the best-known modern translation has been Ann Lawson Lucas's... Judged purely as a translation, however, Brock's version is more natural and engaging with a better feeling for how to turn colloquial 19th Century Tuscan into colloquial modern English. Brock is better at the humour, and unlike Lucas doesn't use quaint idioms or over translate. Sentence by sentence, Brock's Pinocchio has better rhythms. London Review of Books