ESCAPING INTO A SELFCREATED WORLD IN MICHAEL ENDE’S NEVERENDING STORY
ESCAPING INTO A SELFCREATED WORLD IN MICHAEL ENDE’S NEVERENDING STORY

Summary/Abstract: Confronting the death of his mother and neglected by his mourning father, Bastian Balthazar Blux’s only option is escaping from the reality of his world. He is no hero, but he wishes to be one so he creates his own fantasy world, Fantastica, where he can identify with the powerful hero Atreyu, but he can also save the magic land by his own contribution. This children’s book offers a new perspective on the outer and inner world of each child serving as an outlet for the pain. Bastian oscillates between the real and incommodious outer world and his own one, more attractive, building a shield world that correspond to the real one. The book is a metaphor of the world, with its secret and magic spaces, of the childhood, with its escaping tendencies and of the literature.

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