Bambi by Felix Salten

Bambi by Felix Salten

Newly retranslated, this elemental novel about danger, loss, and coming of age in the natural world was the source material for the classic Disney animated film.

Bambi first came out in Vienna a hundred years ago, the work of Felix Salten, a Viennese litterateur, journalist, and man about town, and the book was an immediate success with readers. An English translation soon appeared with an introduction by the Nobel Prize winner John Galsworthy and was widely and well reviewed. Later Walt Disney made his famous movie of the book, and as a consequence Salten's intimate, delicate, poetic, and gripping tale of forest life, a book that captures both the calm and the disquiet of the animal world, has come to be thought of as children's book. Bambi is certainly a book that children can enjoy, but it is also a moving and lasting contribution to the literature of the natural world. In Damion Searls' new translation the fawn Bambi and his mother, the groves and thickets of the forest, the open and dangerous space of the great field, the ever-present threat of the human--the whole intricate weave of life and death that Salten handles so deftly--all come alive for a new generation of readers. Paul Reitter's afterword discusses the surprising political readings to which Salten's fable of the woods was subjected.

Felix Salten, an Austrian author and critic, is best known for his novel Bambi. Siegmund Salzmann was born in Budapest, Hungary, but moved to Vienna, Austria, with his family when he was four weeks old.

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ISBN 13	9781681376318
ISBN 10	1681376318
Title	Bambi
Author	Felix Salten
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The New York Review of Books, Inc
Year published	2022-09-20
Number of pages	208
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