Bambi the novel6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It was well understood in Austria that Salten's novel was an allegory for the pogroms against Jews in pre-Nazi Europe. His relatives and friends are, one by one, shot and killed by hunters. The main plot follows Bambi as he grows up and learns to live in fear of man, the biggest danger for deer. The novel did not depict forest creatures as particularly cute. That trauma doesn't hold a candle to the original novel.īambi, a Life in the Woods was not a children's book at all. That movie is now a children's classic, although is often remembered as traumatic for the offscreen death of Bambi's mother at the hands of a hunter. Walt Disney later obtained the rights to it and produced the 1942 animated movie Bambi. It was a coming-of-age story about a young deer. In 1923, Viennese author Felix Salten published his novel Bambi, a Life in the Woods. ![]()
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