Salten casts milestone moments in awe-inducing light, as in Bambi’s first visit to the meadow with his mother. Days filled with foraging, rest, and communication evoke the full lives these nonhumans lead. Searls’ poetic translation immerses the reader in forest life, putting us ground level with the animals, for better and worse. For a slim book, Bambi carries great allegorical heft-political, ecological, and existential-and is also a moving meditation on attention and solitude. This fall, a reissue from New York Review Books Classics-translated by Damion Searls, with an afterword by Mark Reitter-offers readers another look at this enduring coming-of-age story.
A new translation by Jack Zipes emerged from Princeton University Press earlier in the year. Dimensions: 7.90in - 4.90in - 0.50in - 0.This year marks one hundred years since a Viennese newspaper first serialized Felix Salten’s novel Bambi.Paul Reitter's afterword discusses the surprising political readings to which Salten's fable of the woods was subjected Book Details In Damion Searls's 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. 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. 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 a children's book. An English translation soon appeared with an introduction by the Nobel Prize winner John Galsworthy and was widely and well reviewed.
Bambi first came out in Vienna a hundred years ago, the work of Felix Salten, a Viennese litterateur, journalist, and man about town, and was an immediate success with readers.
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.
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