Il paese dei balocchi: Pinocchio tra Paradiso e Inferno
- Autores: Maila Pentucci
- Localización: Altre Modernità: Rivista di studi letterari e culturali, ISSN-e 2035-7680, Nº. 7, 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Paradisi), págs. 53-63
- Idioma: italiano
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Resumen
"What a wonderful, beautiful, marvelous country! Oh--h--h!!",says Pinocchio at the end of the Chapter XXX of �The Adventures�, after Lamp-Wick explained him the amazing features of the "real country--the best in the world--a wonderful place!": the Land of Toys, also named �blessed place� and portrayed as a sort of heaven on heart for lazy boys.
In reality, the approaching road to the Land of Toys, before as a mental process, - a persuasion of himself � and then as real journey, it�s like a fall to hell.
The master of ceremonies of this fall to hell is just the fellow Lamp-Wick,in fact in the original version of the book Lamp-Wick is �Lucignolo�, a name reminiscent of Lucifer, the famous fallen angel.
Lamp-Wick and Pinocchio work up to the Land of Toy in a wagon conducted by a spineless, shifty driver: �a little, fat man, muchwiderthan he was long, round and shinyas a ball of butter, with a face beaminglike an apple, a little mouth that always smiled, and a voice small and wheedling like that of a catbegging for food�.
This �little, fat man� is a sort of Charon, and the wagon: �wasdrawn by twelve pair of donkeys, all of the same size, but all of different color. Some weregray, otherswhite, and still others a mixture of brown and black. Here and there were a few with large yellow and blue stripes.�.
These queerd on keys, recurring frequently in the fairytale and they are full of double meaning: in half way point between the numinoso Christ�s whitehorse and the demonic Cambridge Bestiary.
Pinocchio and Lamp-Wick glorify the life in the Land of Toys: they feel free and happy like in heaven, but the hard truth is very different: this land looks like the Hell, everywhere is noise, disorder, insecurity.
During the development of the story, it�s possibile to detect different elements of the Pinocchio�s rise and fall between Heaven and Hell. For example the double nature of the Fairy: during the tale she can be the ghost of the little girl (de facto an angel) or she can be a goat (a devil�s mark).
Talking about rise and fall, the end of the story is paradigmatic: Pinocchio will get a real boy. Acquiring the human nature, he will be able to find the Heaven on earth, after a long series of ups and downs, starting with a �badhell night�.
