Alexey Tolstoy - author of Pinocchio

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

A fairy tale is the only form of knowledge of the world that is initially available to a child. The author Pinocchio Alexei Tolstoy contributed to Russian children's literature. In addition to writing books for children, he processed many folklore legends and magical stories, adapting them for children's reading.

The author Pinocchio himself admitted that, processing folklore, he selected the most interesting stories containing truly Russian folk language turns and amazing plot details that parents could read to children in the process of mastering their native language and national culture.

The Italian Lorenzini, the author of Pinocchio, published his instructive tale about the wooden puppet in 1883 under the pseudonym Carlo Collodi. Tolstoy read a translation of this tale in a Berlin magazine in 1923, shortly before returning from exile, and decided to retell it for Russian children. At first, the idea consisted only in literary processing, but it turned out very dry and instructive. Therefore, having enlisted the support of Marshak, the author Pinocchio continued to write it in his own way. In 1936the fairy tale was published first in a children's newspaper, and then in a separate publication.

Collodi turned out to be a terribly naughty puppet, which an organ grinder made out of a magical piece of wood for his misfortune. She was named Pinocchio, which means "pine nut". Oh, and this tough nut set the heat on his dad Geppetto! He did not want to work or study, he lied all the time, wandered, stole and was not treated. Although the magic cricket predicted him a prison or a hospital for this. When the fairy tale was being written, the European pedagogical theory ordered that the child be severely punished for sins. Therefore, the hero is put on a chain, hanged, burned and even imprisoned.

But Pinocchio's soul was kind: he loved Papa Geppetto and the fairy with azure hair, was generous and could repent. Along with didactic strictness, there are many original fantastic images in the Italian fairy tale. For example, the opening of the plot connected with a wonderful log, the Magic Field in the vicinity of the city of Fools, where a wooden varmint buried his five gold coins, the transformation of idle children into donkeys, and, finally, the notorious wooden nose growing from lies.

The Russian author of the fairy tale Pinocchio does not punish idleness, the cricket, instead of prison and hospital, predicts dangers and adventures. But can a boy be frightened by such a future? In Carlo's closet (the mocker Tolstoy gave the organ-grinder the name of the author of the original fairy tale), a magic door is hidden, and the main character learns the secret of the golden key from it.

Decouplingfairy tales are also different. Pinocchio, having gone through adventures and punishments, repents and corrects himself, for which he receives a reward - the fulfillment of a dream. He becomes a living boy, not a doll. Tolstoy, like a Soviet author, Pinocchio makes the leader of the oppressed puppets. He leads them away from Karabas Barabas, the ruthless exploiter, to a new magical theater, a vision of a bright future behind a hidden door.

Pinocchio the author does not endow with a dream. He is a rebel and a leader, a merry fellow and a fidget. He receives a magical golden key by chance, like all the heroes of Russian fairy tales - Ivanushki and Emelya. But according to the prescription of the Soviet ideology, he uses it for the common, not personal benefit.

Modern parents read different books to their growing children, watch cartoons with them. Little Russians know the fairy tale about the golden key and Pinocchio, but for some reason they love and consider Pinocchio their hero.