Multiple Worlds in Juvenile Fiction: Lewis Carroll, Michael Ende, Jostein Gaarder
Multiple Worlds in Juvenile Fiction: Lewis Carroll, Michael Ende, Jostein Gaarder

Summary/Abstract: The parallel universe imagined (in cultural and historical different contexts) by authors of works of fiction “for youth”, such as Lewis Carroll (in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, On the other side of the mirror and what Alice found there or Sylvie and Bruno), Michael Ende (in Neverending Story) and Jostein Gaarder (in Sophie’s World. A Novel about the History of Philosophy), show a disturbing similarity: soon or late, the pleasure of greatness runs to fear, because all these imaginary worlds intersect and mix up to the confusion with the real world and therefore the protagonist of the spiritual adventure begins to feel himself lost in a real labyrinth of projections and reflections. Alice, Bastian, Sophie and the other confused heroes, completely immersed in the absurd, have only one hope to escape this yawning abyss: search (and find) an integrative sense, and through above all ontological perspective they are able to know or foresee.

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