📌Pinocchio Weekly
Following the trend of Internet/Tumblr Book Club started with Dracula Daily from the idea of Matt Kirkland, and the launching of the new movie by Guillermo del Toro, a new book club is born. You will find (and if interested, subscribe) at this link!
The choice of Pinocchio, a novel written at the end of the 19th century by the Italian journalist Carlo Collodi (1826–1890), for a new Book Newsletter’s Club is due to various things:
Is a canonical piece of juvenile literature, and at the same time it offers some more deep nuances that make the story ideal also for a more older reader
Is considered a cultural universal icon that has inspired hundreds of new editions, stage plays, merchandising, television series and movies, and commonplace ideas such as a liar's long nose!
Is a classic enjoyable and easy to read, with a great variety of different characters, each other with its own characteristics
around the late 1990s, the book has been translated into as many as 260 languages worldwide, making it one of the world's most translated books, only recently being surpassed by The Little Prince of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The original novel was published in 1883 and it contain 36 chapters: due to its simple structure and fair number of chapters, the novel will be mailed to your box weekly each friday (towards afternoon), the last day of school and work for many of us (both things that you’ll discover that Pinocchio despise).
The English translation will be the original one from 1925 by Carol Della Chiesa (1887–1972), generally still used today.
There is also this tumblr page in which updates, images, informations and other things will be collected and shared! (if you have a tumblr account, you can also follow me here).
