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A Penguin Classic
Carved from a piece of wood by the old carpenter Geppetto, the puppet Pinocchio comes to life and immediately starts to misbehave. But while this beloved character has achieved literary immortality, the novel has been widely misunderstood. Pinocchio has a penchant for lying, to be sure, but it’s when he avoids going to school that he repeatedly gets into trouble. The Adventures of Pinocchio is thus not a cautionary tale about lying but an unusually timely fable for our increasingly authoritarian times--a story about the importance of education and of preventing others from pulling our strings.
This effervescent new translation captures the antic spirit that makes the mischievous, egotistical, and easily distracted Pinocchio a late nineteenth-century prototype for the likes of Bart Simpson. Featuring copious annotations informed by the translators’ deep knowledge of Italy, it reveals the novel to be not only a subversively entertaining children’s book but also a sophisticated satire reflecting the author’s concern for the social inequality of his time and his belief that duty to others is at the core of our humanity.
For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
A Penguin Classic
Carved from a piece of wood by the old carpenter Geppetto, the puppet Pinocchio comes to life and immediately starts to misbehave. But while this beloved character has achieved literary immortality, the novel has been widely misunderstood. Pinocchio has a penchant for lying, to be sure, but it’s when he avoids going to school that he repeatedly gets into trouble. The Adventures of Pinocchio is thus not a cautionary tale about lying but an unusually timely fable for our increasingly authoritarian times--a story about the importance of education and of preventing others from pulling our strings.
This effervescent new translation captures the antic spirit that makes the mischievous, egotistical, and easily distracted Pinocchio a late nineteenth-century prototype for the likes of Bart Simpson. Featuring copious annotations informed by the translators’ deep knowledge of Italy, it reveals the novel to be not only a subversively entertaining children’s book but also a sophisticated satire reflecting the author’s concern for the social inequality of his time and his belief that duty to others is at the core of our humanity.
For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
NEW TRANSLATION: The current Penguin Classics edition is a translation from the 19th century. This new translation seeks to rescue the novel from the precincts of children's literature and provides extensive annotations unpacking the novel's layers of meaning that elevate it to the status of a great work of Italian, and world, literature.
AUTHORITY OF TRANSLATORS: They're steeped in Italy-one having lived there for 20+ years and written the bestselling book The Italians, the other being a native who has taught widely about Italian literature and culture-and are thus supremely well-positioned to speak to all the novel's uniquely Italian features lost in the Disney children's adaptations.
TIMELY: Our misinformation age has made the character of Pinocchio, long synonymous with lying, suddenly current: The Washington Post's popular Fact Checker column applies to political misstatements a Pinocchio rating.
ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN MESSAGE: Even more than a novel about lying, The Adventures of Pinocchio is a satire of the corrupt Italian king and ruling class, and its core message is the importance of education to challenge them: Pinocchio repeatedly gets into trouble when he avoids going to school; he is promised his humanity only when he excels in his studies, with knowledge empowering him to avoid staying forever a puppet.
PARALLELS TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: One of fiction's best-known artificially created humanoids, Pinocchio spins out of control in a way that speaks to our anxieties about AI.
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| Empfohlen (von): | 8 |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
| Genre: | Importe, Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780143136095 |
| ISBN-10: | 0143136097 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Originalsprache: | Italienisch |
| Herstellernummer: | 765529 |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Collodi, Carlo |
| Übersetzung: |
Hooper, John
Kraczyna, Anna |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 192 x 128 x 16 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Carlo Collodi |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 14.09.2021 |
| Gewicht: | 0,178 kg |
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