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This paper – which has been developed within a dialogue with Simona Micali’s one, regarding possible worlds within science fiction – aims at investigating those narrative strategies engaged in the processes of world building and construction of meaning in fantasy. Within such a frame, all the typical mechanisms related to the act of reading and to the act of make-believe will be also taken into account. The analysis focuses onto Ende’s Neverending Story, which is interpreted through a confrontation both with Wolfgang Iser’s theory about the act of reading, considered as a phenomenological act, and with Tolkien’s primary fantasy model of The Lord of the Rings. Starting from these premises, the paper also suggests a possible theoretical model of textual cooperation reader-author within the specific literary genre of fantasy.

L’intervento – pensato in dialogo con quello di Simona Micali a proposito dei mondi possibili nella science fiction – analizza le strategie narrative poste in atto a livello di costruzione del mondo e costruzione di significato attraverso i meccanismi tipici dell’atto di lettura e del make-believe in un genere specifico come il fantasy. Il percorso si sviluppa lungo un’analisi puntuale della Storia infinita di Ende, messa a confronto con le coeve osservazioni sulla lettura fenomenologica di Wolfgang Iser e con il modello primario del Signore degli anelli di Tolkien, tracciando le coordinate di un possibile modello teorico di cooperazione lettore-autore in questo specifico genere letterario.

10.13125/2039-6597/3741