Pinocchio (book)

Pinocchio ( Italian : "piece of pine ") is the wooden main character in a book by the Italian writer Carlo Collodi, which in 1883 was published under the title Le Avventure di Pinocchio. The book was a success and immediately translated into many languages ​​(in 1915 in the Dutch ). It is also filmed many times, with production by Walt Disney in 1940 is the best known. Please refer Pinocchio (Disney) .

Although it has become a children's classic, it was not only written for children. In an early version Pinocchio hanged because of his many mistakes and violations. In later versions, the wooden puppet eventually turned into a human child. Collodi lived in the work also his sense of satire and allegory out. Reviewers concluded that the work except a children's book, was also an allegory of the rigid society of that time and showed the contrast between accountability and formal forms and follow the free instinct. Initially they found in the "upper classes" this book not suitable for educated children (eg similar to the Dutch " Peter Bell ). The book distinguishes itself in pedagogical terms also by the stunning similarity between the puppet who is a boy and the child who is raised to adulthood. Carlo Collodi was a Freemason, and some also speculate that include criticism of the rigid society and the theme of the transformation of the recorded pop "to" independent man "it is inspired.

Some images from the book are world famous and are regularly cited, especially the long nose that is the result of lying.

In the town of Collodi, which the author of the book, Carlo Lorenzini, his pseudonym derived, is a Pinocchio Park (Parco di Pinocchio) located. There are sculpted scenes from the story.