The Adventures of Pinocchio

The Adventures of Pinocchio is a masterpiece of children’s literature, known throughout the world (it has been translated into more than 400 languages ​​and dialects). It is an introductory text that immerses the reader in the selfishness, superficiality and stubbornness of a child who goes through breathtaking trials, wanders, wonders about good and evil and is always carried away by his good times and fun. Certainly this hero was not typical of 19th century ethnographic literature! Certainly this particular hero is not. Balancing between morality and humor, magic and realism, upset and peace, he narrates the often painful relationship between a father and his child, which ultimately leads to the transformation of the child – or the vice versa. was characteristic of the ethnographic literature of the 19th century! Justin Brax introduces us to a new face of the Blue Fairy, Jepetto, the director of the puppet theater… As for her own Pinocchio, she presents him to us as a paper puppet assembled with pins, light and strong, fragile and human. Thanks to the enigmatic beauty and brilliant power of illustration, the reader will discover an allegorical story that highlights the anxieties and contradictions of childhood in an extremely modern way. It conveys, with density and poetry, both the dark and the introductory side of Collodi’s text. It is her own moving reading of Pinocchio, her own tribute to childhood.