The Neverending Story

Summary

The Neverending Story is a literary work^[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,830 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• The Neverending Story authored Q76498^[3].
• The Neverending Story was influenced by heroic poetry^[4].
• The Neverending Story was influenced by Romanticism^[5].
• The Neverending Story was influenced by Germanic mythology^[6].
• The Neverending Story was influenced by Greek mythology^[7].
• The Neverending Story was influenced by culture of Japan^[8].
• The Neverending Story was influenced by Rudolf Steiner^[9].
• The Neverending Story's instance of is recorded as literary work^[10].
• The Neverending Story's illustrator is recorded as Roswitha Quadflieg^[11].
• The Neverending Story's genre is metafiction^[12].
• The Neverending Story's genre is bildungsroman^[13].
• The Neverending Story's genre is literary fairy tale^[14].
• The Neverending Story's genre is fantasy^[15].
• The Neverending Story's genre is adventure fiction^[16].
• The Neverending Story's genre is speculative fiction^[17].
• The Neverending Story's genre is children's fiction^[18].
• The Neverending Story's depicts is recorded as loneliness^[19].
• The Neverending Story's depicts is recorded as Q19213365^[20].
• The Neverending Story's depicts is recorded as collectivism^[21].
• The Neverending Story's depicts is recorded as power^[22].
• The Neverending Story's depicts is recorded as insanity^[23].
• The Neverending Story's depicts is recorded as loss of reality^[24].
• The Neverending Story's depicts is recorded as creation^[25].
• The Neverending Story's depicts is recorded as personal identity^[26].
• The Neverending Story's depicts is recorded as good and evil^[27].

Product Details

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• Release type: Prose^[28]

• MusicBrainz ID: cf5ae986-d2a3-4b8c-8593-1049ebc910ac^[29]

Body

Authorship and Creation

The Neverending Story authored Q76498^[3].

Publication

The Neverending Story was published on 1979^[30]. Its place of publication is recorded as Stuttgart^[31]. Its language of work or name is recorded as German^[32]. Genres include metafiction^[12], bildungsroman^[13], literary fairy tale^[14], fantasy^[15], adventure fiction^[16], and speculative fiction^[17].

Cultural Impact

Things named for The Neverending Story include The Seemingly Never-Ending Story^[33], a television series episode^[34], directed by Raymond S. Persi^[35].

Why It Matters

The Neverending Story ranks in the top 1% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,830 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[36] It is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[37]

Entities named for it include The Seemingly Never-Ending Story^[33], a television series episode^[34], directed by Raymond S. Persi^[35].