We could be optimistic and hopeful and creative with these tools, or we can pull our hair out and be upset and stressed out about them. I think that these are inevitable developments, but how we use them and approach them is what's not inevitable. As a sci-fi writer, does that give you pause? Felix Salten is a poet.Sci-fi publishers are already dealing with AI-generated work. For delicacy of perception and essential truth I hardly know of any story of animals that can stand beside this life study of a forest deer.

Delicious not only for children but for those who are no longer so fortunate. Farah Abdessamad, Observerīambi is a delicious book. Salten’s name and prose and the true, complex spirit of Bambi are finally restored. Thanks to a new translation from Damion Searls. Lensing, TLSīambi articulates a tension between fear and desire, and an attempt to dominate one’s emotions to avoid the pitfalls of foolishness. The novel combines a richly imagined animal world with the narrative trajectory of a Bildungsroman. Maddie Crum, Los Angeles Review of Books The book is a rich and busy ecosystem - much like a Viennese café. Returning to Bambi nearly a century after it was published is an opportunity to attune ourselves to its cacophony of sounds, its ripples of gossip, its characters’ headbutting. Paul Reitter’s afterword discusses the surprising political readings to which Salten’s fable of the woods was subjected. 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.

Bambi a life in the woods book