The Neverending Story

So lovely especially when read as a ‘book about books', incredible form/content nexus (story is so well adapted to novel format, especially in the modern sense where reading is an individual activity). The limited feeling of Fantastica works so well considering how tied it is to the human world + the books of said world, existing only within the contains of a story with a beginning and end. It's not a fantasy world with super expansive world building (although it's people + places are interesting and inventive), but I don't think it should be, as the narrative + metanarrative of the book would be lessened by a more established setting. Nice translation, reads like a classic children's story despite being written in the 70s/80s, Good stuff loved it