When it was translated to English in 1928, it became an early Book-of-the-Month Club selection. The book was a massive hit, according to Wikipedia. “The close parallel between the fawn’s becoming a stag and a child’s becoming an adult gives the book its moral overtone.” “It is a realistic, though anthropomorphized, account of a deer from his birth to his final role as a wise and tough old denizen of the forest, struggling to survive against his chief enemy, man the hunter,” writes Encyclopedia Britannica. However, readers clearly perceived its somewhat heavy-handed moral overtones and thought that it was perfect for children. “Few know that Salten, an Austrian Jew who later fled Nazi-occupied Vienna, wrote Bambi in the aftermath of World War I,” writes Elizabeth Spires for The New York Times, “intending it for an adult audience.” The story, which went on to inspire one of Walt Disney’s best-known films, had been written in German by Felix Salten – for adults. Serialized publication of Bambi, a Life in the Woods began on this day in 1922. It was usually sort of traumatic.īut years before Bambi's terror when his mother is killed by a hunter was immortalized on the screen, the book that bears his name was a popular novel. Many adults have a story about the first time they saw Bambi as a child.
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