![]() ![]() There, a grim and spiteful old man, Karl Konrad Koreander, interrogates him, and quickly forms a harsh opinion of Bastian. The book starts as Bastian rushes into a little dusty antiques shop, hiding from the bullies who are chasing him. I was grown up enough not to expect to disappear into Phantasia when I read it, but it still messed with my head a little bit. Therefore, I was a Sebastian reading 'The Neverending Story' about Bastian reading 'The Neverending Story' about stories and imagination, and while Bastian was being drawn into Phantasia, he was being told that someone else was following. It's a book about a boy being sucked into a story, and a character tells him that other people are following his story. At one point in the book, the book breaks the fourth wall. My middle name, meanwhile, happens to be Sebastian (the long form of Bastian), so perhaps it is no surprise that the book hit me harder than any other - especially as it was my first experience of metafictional narratives. In short, aside from his academic performance and family tragedy, Bastian was basically me at that age. His mother has died, his father has fallen into a deep depression and become quite distant, and on top of it all, Bastian is a timid boy with a habit of overthinking things. ![]() The Neverending Story is the tale of Bastian Balthasar Bux, a fat little 9-year-old boy who has no friends, gets bullied, and is doing badly in school. ![]()
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