Word: collodi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Once upon a time there was a piece of wood." So begins The Adventures of Pinocchio (Macmillan; $17.50 hardcover, $9.95 paperback), by C. Collodi, translated by Carol della Chiesa. But as this intriguing volume shows, the story has no true ending. The marionette whose nose grows with each lie is almost a century old, and Attilio Mussino's paintings were first printed in 1911. Yet this version -somewhat redesigned for modern consumption-is as ageless as all great fables. The paper clothes, the bread hat, the saintly carpenter Geppetto, the Cat and the Fox, the Azure Fairy are creations...
Heavens to Geppetto! Carlo Collodi's 1883 children's classic, The Adventures of Pinocchio, had incurred the wrath of citizens in the Japanese city of Nagoya. Calling themselves Pinokio Wo Arau Kai (Association to Wash Pinocchio), they demanded recall of 19 Japanese editions of the book available in stores and libraries. Their argument: Pinocchio stresses "discrimination against disabled unfortunates" and must not "be read by our children...
Shiftless Schemers. The Japanese bear no grudge against Pinocchio himself, who in Collodi's tale is afflicted with disabilities enough before achieving his dream of becoming a flesh-and-blood boy. Their objections focus on the book's two ne'er-do-wells, the Fox and the Cat, shiftless schemers posing as mendicants who are lame (the Fox) and blind (the Cat), while merrily fleecing the gullible young puppet. By the end of the tale, the Cat is truly sightless and minus a paw, while the Fox does not fare too well either?he ends up thin, almost hairless...