Summary of the book "The Golden Key. The Adventures of Pinocchio. Seventy illustrations by Aminadav Kanevsky and over a hundred illustrations by Charles Folkard"Tolstoy A. N.: For the first time Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1883-1945) got acquainted with the story of Pinocchio by the Italian writer Carlo Collodi when in 1923 he sat down to edit the translation of this fairy tale, made by the famous writer N. I. Petrovskaya at the end of the XIX century. He liked the fairy tale, and in 1933 Tolstoy took up his own account of the adventures of the animated wooden doll. However, he did not like the moral teachings of Collodi, who constantly instructed his readers, showing how Pinocchio's mistakes bring all sorts of troubles and misfortunes. Then Tolstoy decided to remake Collodi's fairy tale in his own way, and as a result, a real diamond was born — "The Adventures of Pinocchio" (from Italian. Burattino — "doll", "marionette"). The fairy from Collodi's fairy tale turned into Malvina, the kind owner of the Manzhafoko puppet theater turned into the evil Karabas—Barabas, and Pinocchio himself became a mischievous funny man and an incorrigible optimist. The whole story of his adventures has gained extraordinary dynamism.The well-known image of Pinocchio was created in the 1950s by the talented graphic artist A.M. Kanevsky; perhaps these are some of his most famous works. In this collection, the drawings are taken from two publications — Moscow, Children's Literature, 1971 and 1983. Carlo Lorenzini (Collodi is a pseudonym) was born in 1826 in Florence in a poor family. He was attracted to literature at an early age. Carlo worked as a journalist, wrote short stories and essays, published a satirical magazine and translated Charles Perrault's fairy tales into Italian. His fairy tale about the adventures of a wooden doll brought the writer worldwide fame. He hardly expected such success when the first part of this story was published in the summer of 1881 in one of the first Italian weekly children's magazines. However, parents and children liked the adventures of the puppet with the nose lengthening from lying, although they had a lot of moralizing, instructive maxims and a lot of violent scenes. The readers demanded a sequel, and for two years Collodi added more and more new parts to the story of Pinocchio. By the end of the 20th century, "The Adventures of Pinocchio" (from Italian. pino — "pine tree", occhio — "eye") have been translated into 260 languages.In this edition, the fairy tale translated by S. Y. Afonkin is decorated with drawings by the English artist Charles Folkard (1878-1963). His early talent as a draughtsman led him to devote his life to illustrating books and magazines. Folkard created a series of drawings for the stories of the Brothers Grimm, for Aesop's fables and Arabic fairy tales. For The Adventures of Pinocchio, he drew about 100 drawings that became classics. Read more…