The main theme of Momo can be seen as a criticism of consumerism and stress. [1] [2] It describes the personal and social losses produced by unnecessary consumption, and the danger to be driven by a hidden interest group with enough power to induce people into this life style. Michael Ende has also stated to have had the concept of currency demurrage in mind when writing Momo. [3] The reader is firstly introduced to the verses of an Irish children song: "Twinkle, twinkle little star". In the end there is an epilogue in which Michael Ende admits to have written the whole fairytale based on the memory of what a passenger in a train told him. It is assumed that the passenger could be Master Hora. There was another long silence. At last he went on, 'And all at once, before you know it, you find you've swept the whole street clean, bit by bit. What's more, you aren't out of breath.' He nodded to himself. 'That's important, too,' he concluded.” Aun así, si tengo que elegir el personaje que más me gustó, entonces elegiría a Beppo Barrendero, que desde el inicio mostró la sabiduría que su creador le otorgó. Por otra parte, el personaje que menos me gustó fue Casiopea, la tortuga, porque los letreros que aparecían en su caparazón eran spoilers que me hacían saber antes de tiempo que todo iba a salir bien. No me gusta cuando una historia se vuelve predecible y en este caso es culpa de Casiopea. Sin ella, Momo hubiera corrido más riesgos, lo que habría aumentado la intriga por los posibles acontecimientos que pudieron haberle pasado. He cleaned the streets for so long that he created a life philosophy from it. He said it wasn't good thinking about how long the street was so that people wouldn't give up before the finish line.

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That question has a familiar ring to it. It is a quote from a long-ago favourite. The mother, confused, looks at the title of the book the son is reading, and sees the cover of Michael Ende's perfect fairytale. The 14-year-old is rereading the story that he had loved to listen to as a small child, a story of such power that it gains strength every time you enter it. Just when she is about to rush out, already wearing her coat, some of her mentor students come in. There has been a conflict. They want to tell her their different versions. The teacher sighs, sacrifices her valuable time out of a reluctant sense of duty, and lets go of the next underground, quite unwillingly. Die unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story) is Ende's best known work. Other books include Momo and Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer (Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver). 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. En fin, la única tristeza que me dio cuando cerré la última página fue que no me quería despegar de Momo, quería saber qué pasaba después, como volvería a hacer su vida tras restaurar el tiempo. This is a beautifully written fantasy about a young girl who saves the world but there is a strong moral there as well. The people who try to save time end up being sad and stressed with no light in their lives. Their children have huge, expensive toys which need no imagination to play with. It all suddenly sounds a bit real.

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He gazed silently into space before continuing. 'And then you start to hurry,' he went on. 'You work faster and faster, and every time you look up there seems to be just as much left to sweep as before, and you try even harder, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop - and still the street stretches away in front of you. That's not the way to do it.' Some of his other famous works are: "The Spoilsport", "A very short Fairytale", "Mirror in the mirror"… Ves, Momo —le decía, por ejemplo—, las cosas son así: a veces tienes ante ti una calle larguísima. Te parece tan terriblemente larga, que nunca crees que podrás acabarla. Y entonces te empiezas a dar prisa, cada vez más prisa. Cada vez que levantas la vista, ves que la calle no se hace más corta. Y te esfuerzas más todavía, empiezas a tener miedo, al final estás sin aliento. Y la calle sigue estando por delante. Así no se debe hacer.

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When the book was published in the U.S. in 1985, Natalie Babbit from the Washington Post commented: "Is it a children's book? Not here in America." [8] Momo was republished by Puffin Press on January 19, 2009. [9] They went to different kindergartens where they were thought the skills that will be useful in the future. The parents worked more so they would have more money to buy toys that would have no effect on the children's imagination. Momo became lonely. Ende wanted to show human's faith in the modern society where time instead of money became the measurement for everything valuable. By reading it can be perceived that the more we save time, the less time we have.

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Momo is one of those rare books that would do well in a fourth-grade classes, but is also strangely releveant to adults. The story centers around a girl named Momo who took residence in an ancient, abandoned amphitheater in an unnamed town, which is populated by a series of people who do small-town jobs (Bepo Streetsweeper, Nino who owns an inn, Guido Guide who works as a fake - albeit enterataining - tourist guide). The MOMO book artfully captures the essence of the restaurant, its internationally recognized signature dishes, stylish interior design to the people behind the scenes and their intriguing tips and secrets. The success of this stalwart restaurant in The Netherlands, and how its presence since 2008 has changed the restaurant landscape in Amsterdam, is beautifully presented. When even her closest friends fall under the influence of the Men in Grey in one way or another, Momo's only hope to save the time of mankind are the administrator of Time, Master Secundus Minutus Hora, and Cassiopeia, a tortoise who can communicate through writing on her shell and can see thirty minutes into the future. Hora placed her to sleep for a year and a half so that the words she needed to help her friends would appear inside of her. She didn't see anyone in the city and the Men in Grey managed to isolate her from everyone.

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He tried to convince her that she will damage her friends because the only important thing in life is to acquire more that the others and that friendship and love will come with time. As a replacement for her friends, he offered her a doll Babygirl. But then the gray men come, men with gray cars, gray suits, gray briefcases, and gray cigars. The gray men are time thieves, swindling the good folk of Momo’s city – man, woman, and child – out of all their time for rest, joy, imagination, and friendship, and leaving them with nothing but hustle and bustle, worry and crabbiness. When Momo’s listening skills enable her to see through – I mean hear through – the gray men’s scheme, she becomes their enemy in a conflict that could save or destroy time itself, and all life with it. Such a poor little girl against such great and numerous enemies, and who does she have on her side but a strange old man and a tortoise with an LCD shell? Questo libro fa parte delle "Letture della buonanotte", divento audiolibro e leggo per la mia piccola prima di far la nanna. [questa volta in spagnolo] The original English translation The Grey Gentlemen by Frances Lobb was published in 1974. A new English translation, Momo, was published in 1984. A newly translated, newly illustrated U.S. edition was released by McSweeney's in August 2013, in celebration of the book's fortieth anniversary. The McSweeney edition was scheduled for a new release in January 2017. However, some illustrations (created by Marcel Dzama) in the McSweeney release, such as Momo's appearance, do not conform to the text in the book.An episode of the anime adaptation of Sailor Moon features a plot similar to the plot of the Men in Grey where the villain Jadeite steals the time of the people of Tokyo. The Spanish translation Momo, o la extraña historia de los ladrones del tiempo y la niña que devolvió el tiempo a los hombres was made by Susana Constante in 1978 for Ediciones Alfaguara: it was a great success in Spain and Latin America, having dozens of reprints since.

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I truly feel that MOMO, as a concept, has had an impact on the Dutch restaurant scene. Creative Asian cuisine was one aspect we were unfamiliar with. And if you ask me, it is here to stay. Especially in a cosmopolitan city like Amsterdam.” -Robert Kranenborg Bu hikayede olduğu gibi yaşadığımız dünyada (şimdiki zamanda) insanların para, kariyer, daha çok para, şan, şöhret, prestij gibi hedeflerin peşinden koşmaları yani kendilerini tamamiyle bu hedeflere adamaları uğruna birbirlerine hatta kendilerine ayıracak (durup düşünecek) bir dakikacık zamanlarının dahi olmaması ne kadar vahim bir durum değil mi? Bir arkadaşla, bir aileyle geçirilen dolu dolu 1 saatin, 1 yıl boyunca robot gibi çalışmaktan çok daha fazla getirisinin olduğunu kim inkar edebilir? Peki birçok şeye sahip olduğumuz halde bizi mutsuz eden, yine de hayattan zevk almamaya iten nedenler nelerdir? Kimdir yaşadığımız hayatta bizi insanlıktan çıkaran zaman hırsızları? Farkında olarak ya da olmayarak hayatımızdan kayıp giden zamanları ne geri getirebilir?It is about the concept of time and how it is used by humans in modern societies. In the ruins of an amphitheater just outside an unnamed city lives Momo, a little girl of mysterious origin. She came to the ruin, parent-less and wearing a long, used coat. She is illiterate and cannot count, and she doesn't know how old she is. When asked, she replies, "As far as I remember, I've always been around." Goodhew, Linda; and Loy, David, Momo, Dogen, and the Commodification of Time, KronoScope, Volume 2, Number 1, 2002, pp. 97-107(11).