Momo is so good at listening that it almost qualifies as a magical gift. And all she gives them in return is a listening ear. Her only food and home furnishings are things other people have brought her. In fact, Momo lives in the space under the stage of an old, ruined amphitheatre outside an unnamed Italian city. She does not live in an orphanage or foster home. " Momo is the name of a little girl who has no parents or guardian. I struggled to write a summary without spoiling too much, so I am going to insert a nicely written synopsis that I found on an online blog. It was written with the intent of being a children's book but I think that only as an adult one can truly understand the book and its message(s) in their entirety. It seems as if not too many people know about this book, that has been written by the author of "The Neverending Story", and I truly wish that more people, especially adults, read this book. Michael Ende's works have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 20 million copies, and have been adapted into motion pictures, stage plays, operas and audio books.I just finished reading the book for the third time in my life and it is such a gem. Other books include Momo and Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer (Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver). He was interested in and influenced by anthroposophy.ĭie unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story) is Ende's best known work. The reader is often invited to take a more interactive role in the story, and the worlds in his books often mirror our reality, using fantasy to bring light to the problems of an increasingly technological modern society.Įnde was also known as a proponent of economic reform, and claimed to have had the concept of aging money in mind when writing Momo. Ende’s writing could be described as a surreal mixture of reality and fantasy. Ende claimed, "It is for this child in me, and in all of us, that I tell my stories," and that " for any child between 80 and 8 years" (qtd.
However, Ende was not strictly a children’s author, as he also wrote books for adults. He was the son of the surrealist painter Edgar Ende.Įnde was one of the most popular and famous German authors of the 20th century, mostly due to the enormous success of his children's books. Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende was a German writer of fantasy and children's literature.
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