When the wise hundred-year-old cricket asks Pinocchio why he wants to run away from home, Pinocchio tells him: “I shall be sent to school and shall be made to study either by love or by force. Collodi seems to have had Rousseau in mind. He behaves, in short, like a fairly typical two-year-old when the two-year-old is misbehaving.
In fact he’s badly behaved even before he’s created: while still a stick of wood, he starts a fight between Geppetto and his owner, and once he is a marionette he immediately wreaks all kinds of havoc: he insults Geppetto as soon as he has a mouth, laughs at him, runs away from him, etc.
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When I was a boy I was made distinctly uncomfortable by, and even tried not to think about, the Walt Disney movie “Pinocchio.”īut in Carlo Collodi’s “The Adventures of Pinocchio” (serialized in 1881-1883)-the original text for the Walt Disney adaptation-Pinocchio, unlike Rousseau’s ideal of the child, is created naughty. This piece is drawn from “Love and Lies: An Essay on Truthfulness, Deceit, and the Growth and Care of Erotic Love,” out from FSG on February 3rd.
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