The Neverending Story
(Michael Ende)
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende is one of the fantasy classics that was probably first made popular by the release of the movie in 1984. However, anyone who enjoys the freedoms investigated in pure fantasy is sure to appreciate the elaborate and clever scope of the novel, following Bastian Balthazar Bux not only to the Ivory Tower, but on a journey that is much of an exploration mind and spirit as it is of strange terrain and magical puzzles.
In the book, Bastian encounters many of our favorite characters like Atreyu the boy hunter and Falkor the white Luck Dragon, but there are others that he meets in the rebuilding of Fantastica, the world he saved by bringing the Childlike Empress a new name. All of them are so unique and unusual that they are like no other inhabitants of any other magical realm in all of the fantasy genre.
Bastian, as the savior of Fantastica, is given the task of reinventing the world one wish at a time. His wishes take him through deserts and jungles, into towns and forests, and little by little he begins to forget the human world from which he comes. This development encourages the emergence of unsavory qualities in Bastian's personality, and he must war with himself to remember his task and gain admittance into the world of humans once again.
The Neverending Story does truly seem neverending, but pleasantly so--the action never lags; the characters and scenery are always compelling. The many concepts divulged within the narrative also contain clever sparks of creative manipulation of fiction versus reality. Able to be read again and again The Neverneding Story is never patronizing, even though it speaks to the delighted child in all of us.
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