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The Neverending Story (i.imgur.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Crul@lemmy.world to c/fantasy@lemmy.ml
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I don't really have anything to add, I just love this book. I searched for "The NeverEnding Story" in this community, saw that there was no post about it and wanted to fix that :).

Image found on Facebook. I think the source of that specific printing is the Spanish version of the book, [EDIT: as pointed by @alvarolh@lemm.ee, the version on the link is also a Spanish version, I may have had a brainfart because of the font (?)] ~~but it's very similar to some German version covers~~.

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[–] Crul@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Agree, Momo is GREAT! I resonate a lot with both books.

The fantasy parts of the NES sometimes feel like allegory but mostly feel like folly.

Note that (if I'm not mistaken), NES is mostly an adaptation of Nietzsche's ideas:

  • Will to power = "Do what you wish" written in Auryn
  • Eternal recurrence = many "infinite loops" hidden over the book

Many parts of the book make more sense once I was aware of those references (which was not so long ago).

[–] HandsHurtLoL@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

This is an interesting insight. I have a degree in philosophy but tap danced around the Nietzsche class to go to the phenomenology & existentialism course instead lol