Edward Carey Talks to Alexander Chee About Rewriting a Myth, and the Enduring Power of Pinocchio
The Swallowed Man , by Edward Carey. The story of Pinocchio is something that has taken several shapes in my life. The first of course was the Disney story, known to most Americans by now. The second involved the discovery of Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio, a life-changing event—the original novel which would seem to have served as the loosest possible inspiration for Disney’s Pinocchio. The relationship between the Disney and the Collodi was like the mask and the face. Now we have, in a sense, the mirror, too: The Swallowed Man, by the writer and artist Edward Carey, ima...
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