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Pinocchio is such a fixture of culture that most authors would be too nervous to interact with the classic story in any extended way. Edward Carey’s latest novel is audacious in this regard, giving
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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...
Edward Carey’s whimsical black-and-white portraits mark milestones both personal and political.
The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey Edward Carey was the author behind Little, one of my favorite books of 2018. What Carey did was take the few facts that exist about Madame Tussaud’s early life, and weaved a truly wonderful fictionalized biography. Here in The Swallowed Man, he creates what has to be seen as an essential companion piece to the Pinocchio tale. He imagines woodcarver Geppetto swallowed by the monstrous sea creature, somehow surviving, and writing from within the innards of the monster. At one go, it becomes an enchanting meditation on “fatherhood,” on isolation, on re...