Pinocchio in Venice by Robert Coover EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Robert Coover
- Language: English
- Genre: Novels
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***Pinocchio in Venice*** by Robert Coover is an intellectually rich, satirical, and deeply surreal novel that reimagines the wooden puppet not as a wide-eyed boy longing for humanity—but as an aging, embittered man reflecting on the failures of both life and art. Set in the dreamy, decaying labyrinth of Venice, the novel becomes a meditation on memory, identity, authorship, and the lies we tell ourselves to stay real.
Now an esteemed (and self-important) professor, Pinocchio—who insists on being called “Professor P.”—returns to Venice to complete his magnum opus, *The Mysterious Stranger*, and, in a strange reversal of his original tale, seeks to transform *back* into wood. His journey is riddled with hallucinations, grotesque sexual encounters, and encounters with figures from his past (like the Blue Fairy and talking animals), all steeped in Freudian and literary symbolism.
Coover uses this twisted sequel not just to satirize the original *Pinocchio* story but to interrogate Western literature, Catholic guilt, aging, masculinity, and the failure of art to deliver salvation. The prose is dense, poetic, and disorienting—intentionally blurring the lines between fantasy, delusion, and metafictional play.
What makes *Pinocchio in Venice* a standout (and demanding) work is its ambition. It’s not just a story—it’s a reckoning. Fans of postmodern fiction, like the works of Joyce, Nabokov, or Pynchon, will appreciate its layers, its linguistic acrobatics, and its willingness to push discomfort in search of deeper truth.
It is, in many ways, a tragic farce: a puppet who became a man now haunted by the weight of being one. And in Coover’s hands, it becomes a dark, dazzling exploration of what it means to be *real*—and whether we ever truly are.
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