Avventure di Pinocchio

A wooden puppet lies, disobeys, and runs away from the only person who loves him, and finds that every falsehood costs him something. Pinocchio begins as a trickster, a creature of wood who refuses to be shaped, who laughs at rules and rebels against his creator Geppetto. But as he tumbles through astonishing adventures, a carnival of fools, a giant dog-fish, a field of coins that blooms and dies, he discovers that freedom without responsibility is its own kind of trap. Collodi's 1883 text is darker than the fairy tale we think we know: it is a story about what it costs to become human, told with sharp Tuscan humor and genuine compassion. The nose grows with every lie. The donkey ears arrive after each act of foolishness. This is not a gentle moral tale but a wild, sometimes brutal initiation into the difficult business of being good.