It was translated into English in 1928 and became a Book-of-the-Month Club hit. His most famous work is Bambi, which he wrote in 1923. In 1927 he became president of the Austrian P.E.N. He wrote film scripts and librettos for operettas. He also wrote for nearly all the major newspapers of Vienna. He was soon publishing, on an average, one book a year, of plays, short stories, novels, travel books, and essay collections. In 1900 he published his first collection of short stories. In 1901 he founded Vienna's first, short-lived literary cabaret. He became part of the Young Vienna movement (Jung Wien) and soon received work as a full-time art and theater critic in the Vienna press. He also began submitting poems and book reviews to journals. When his father went bankrupt, Felix had to quit school and begin working in an insurance agency.
Many Jews were immigrating into the city in the late 19th century because Vienna had finally granted full citizenship to Jews in 1867. When he was three weeks old, his family moved to Vienna, Austria. He was born Siegmund Salzmann in Budapest, Hungary.
There is more than one author with this Name.įelix Salten was an Austrian writer. Janet Schulman published a children's picture book adaptation in 2000 that featured realistic oil paintings and many of Salten's original words. A ballet adaptation was written by an Oregon troupe, but never premiered. It was adapted into a theatrical animated film, Bambi, by Walt Disney Productions in 1942, two Russian live-action adaptations in 19, and a stage production in 1998. Salten published a sequel, Bambis Kinder, eine Familie im Walde (Bambi's Children), in 1939.The novel was well received by critics and is considered a classic, as well as one of the first environmental novels.
An English translation by Whittaker Chambers was published in North America by Simon & Schuster in 1928, and the novel has since been translated and published in over 30 languages around the world. The novel traces the life of Bambi, a male roe deer, from his birth through childhood, the loss of his mother, the finding of a mate, the lessons he learns from his father and experience about the dangers posed by human hunters in the forest. Bambi, a Life in the Woods, originally published in Austria as Bambi: Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde is a 1923 Austrian novel written by Felix Salten and published by Ullstein Verlag.
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