Abstract
As is well known, in 1935 the famous Soviet writer Aleksey Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1883–1945) wrote the fairy tale Zolotoj klyuchik, ili Priklyucheniya Buratino (The Little Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino) inspired by Collodi’s Pinocchio (1883), that he read and loved some years earlier. Considering the substantial relationships between the two works, the present paper aims at analysing them from two main points of view: a) the different connotations attributed to animal and human characters; b) the authentic nature of the “implied reader” (W. Iser) in the two texts, regardless of the moralistic or ideological contexts in which they were respectively conceived.Are they really to be considered as “fairy tales for children”? To what kind of child are they addressed?
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