“In questa casa sono tutti morti”. Di cosa parlano veramente Pinocchio e gli altri grandi libri (non solo italiani) per bambini
“IN THIS HOUSE WE ARE ALL DEAD”. WHAT PINOCCHIO AND OTHER CHILDREN’S CLASSICS (IN ITALY AND ELSEWHERE) ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT

Summary/Abstract: In an attempt to find a possible criterion according to which to select the most representativetitles and authors in the history of Italian children’s literature, one finds that a very peculiar themecharacterises the books that can be considered most remarkable: death. Death, though, in Italian aswell as in all the other children’s classics around the world, is not dealt with in a literal way, but in a metaphorical, symbolic, indirect one. Therefore, it is necessary to borrow interpretative approachesfrom other scientific fields (anthropology and philosophy, for example) in order to understand death’s deepest meaning and to discover that what it stands for, in Italian (and not only Italian) children’s literature, is an “otherness”, a “beyond”, an unknown and non-anthropocentric dimension that children must go through in order to grow up.

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