However, the telephone in the backroom rings and the proprietor hurries in to answer it.

He enters but is not only not welcomed by the store’s owner, but chastised for even daring to come into this shop which does not even carry children’s books. In his retelling of his story he is on his way to school one day and he chances upon a bookstore he’d never noticed before. His mother has died and his father, in significant measure also missing his wife and Bastian’s mother, has retreated into a quiet world in which he seldom even acknowledges Bastian’s existence.īastian is a prime candidate for the sort of “mis-remembering” I mention above. He is a good deal heavier that he would wish, has virtually no athletic skills, isn’t much of a student, is the butt of jokes and tricks from classmates, and has a difficult home life.

However, in the retelling a few inaccuracies may slip into the story, yet the retelling goes over well with those who hear it and this slightly altered (or even significantly altered) version becomes the one which the teller remembers and the actual event, as it occurred, even tends to disappear from memory.Īnd so it is with Bastian Balthazar Bux. However, few of us are free from a few glitches of “mis-remembering” this or that event.Ī typical such incident begins with a retelling of some actual event. We humans live in the world of everydayness, and most of us seem to make our way with some difficulties, but, in the main, we live out our days with many successes. Book review - By Ende, Michael – THE NEVERENDING STORY Reviews of Nobel Prize winner

The neverending story by michael ende