Momo by Michael Ende (David Palmer)

Momo
by Michael Ende
Translated by J. Maxwell Brownjohn
Read by David Palmer
This book was first published in 1973 in German as "Momo oder Die seltsame Geschichte von den Zeit-Dieben und von dem Kind, das den Menschen die gestohlene Zeit zurückbrachte"
[Momo, or the strange story of the time-thieves and the child who brought the stolen time back to the people]
First published in English as “The Grey Gentlemen” in 1974 (Translated by Frances Lobb)
Published as “Momo” in English in 1984
Audio originally issued by NLS on cassette in 1985
"An allegorical fantasy illustrates the modern struggle between the forces of good and evil. A waiflike girl named Momo possesses a unique talent--her listening abilities make it possible for those around her to think great thoughts."
Chapter list:
00:00:00 - (i) Book info
00:05:27 - (01) The Amphitheater
00:17:06 - (02) Listening
00:30:03 - (03) Make-believe
00:49:07 - (04) Two Special Friends
01:03:04 - (05) Tall Stories
01:23:43 - (06) The Timesaving Bank
01:54:38 - (07) The Visitor
02:41:04 - (08) The Demonstration
03:00:02 - (09) The Trial
03:16:30 - (10) More Haste Less Speed
03:39:18 - (11) The Conference
03:54:24 - (12) Nowhere House
04:35:19 - (13) A Year and a Day
05:13:42 - (14) Three Lunches, No Answers
05:27:08 - (15) Found and Lost
05:43:24 - (16) Loneliness
05:58:22 - (17) The Square
06:14:41 - (18) The Pursuit
06:25:20 - (19) Under Siege
06:44:36 - (20) Pursuing the Pursuers
06:58:41 - (21) An End and a Beginning
07:21:45 - (22) Author's Postscript
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Chapter list:
00:00:00 - (i) Book info
00:05:27 - (01) The Amphitheater
00:17:06 - (02) Listening
00:30:03 - (03) Make-believe
00:49:07 - (04) Two Special Friends
01:03:04 - (05) Tall Stories
01:23:43 - (06) The Timesaving Bank
01:54:38 - (07) The Visitor
02:41:04 - (08) The Demonstration
03:00:02 - (09) The Trial
03:16:30 - (10) More Haste Less Speed
03:39:18 - (11) The Conference
03:54:24 - (12) Nowhere House
04:35:19 - (13) A Year and a Day
05:13:42 - (14) Three Lunches, No Answers
05:27:08 - (15) Found and Lost
05:43:24 - (16) Loneliness
05:58:22 - (17) The Square
06:14:41 - (18) The Pursuit
06:25:20 - (19) Under Siege
06:44:36 - (20) Pursuing the Pursuers
06:58:41 - (21) An End and a Beginning
07:21:45 - (22) Author's Postscript

[@8fledermaus8]

Thanks a lot, I am German, born in the early 80s Michael Ende's works Momo and the Neverending Story accompanied me on cassettes throughout my childhood. Gorgeous storytelling from someone with a big heart and, I most often shy away from this word, some wisdom. If I had kids I most definitely would share his tales with them too.
Gonna fall asleep to the story of Momo tonight ^^

[@blacklisted4885]

The Make Believe chapter is so good. How the children improvise a play narrative, feeding off each others imagination. Even a native language. What a wonderful book. Id never heard of it.

[@dollydancer2097]

I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this posting.
I have been searching for an English audiobook version of Momo for YEARS. I love Ende’s work (The Neverending Story, notwithstanding), but short of learning German, had no chance to hear this in English in its entirety. And it’s such a great book. Let’s hope they re-issue this particular audiobook, or redo it at some time. The translation is excellent.
There is another English translation reading of Momo available on CZcams, but it is incomplete thus far. A pity, since it is very good.
I have started listening to this particular one, and it’s great. Kudos to Hellblazer1138 for making this available. You rock!!

[@Hellblazer1138Audio]

Some random redditor mentioned the book and I decided to search the NLS catalog for it. I'm glad I did. It was an interesting book to say the least. The narrator isn't bad but he seems more suited to the horror stories I've heard him read than this style of novel.

[@dollydancer2097]

@@Hellblazer1138Audio Interesting comment. I actually think the reader is ideal for the material, since the men in grey are especially creepy, and probably DO belong in a horror story.
The narrator does have a kind of 1905’s Disney style storyteller voice, though. Perhaps that’s the point.

[@yp77738yp77739]

How was I so ignorant never to have read or even heard of this, it translates so well but I would imagine in the original German it was so much better.
I’d imagine it an antidote to Dasein and our finite mortality and time on this planet, if one feels that to be burdensome.

[@thj9760]

Read it as a child back in the early 80’s. So much nostalgia.

[@Brice23]

Burdensome mortality... Like most perceptions that stem from our dubious human thought lives, the idea of beginnings and endings is the product of grasping in shadows for answers to questions that are not basically correct. While we live, there are traces of all other extant beings within, when we return to the womb of nature and our components are recombined and formulated as novel life forms in which traces of us all reside, It only ever begins in as much as the pulse of transformation continues to behave. In essence we are always and always we will be. We must know this to be true when we measure the outright absurdity of it against the childlike obviousness of it. Thank you, Momo.

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Michael Ende was German

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[@Hellblazer1138Audio]

Neither is it sci-fi. I'm almost positive they meant this comment for one of my Strugatsky videos.