Bambi
Simon and Schuster
1928
Price:
International shipping available
Customs duties and taxes may apply.
Ships from: Maryland, United States
Taxes not included
VAT and other taxes are not reflected in the listed pricing. Read more
Authenticity guaranteed
We guarantee the authenticity of this item.
Details
Description
First printing of the first trade edition in English, in the scarce original dust jacket.
"Just remember that He is behind you, do you understand, Bambi? And He will kill you without mercy."
Like many great children's books, Bambi was originally published to an admiring audience of adults, who in time found themselves too sensitive for the terror and brutality of Life in the Woods. To generations scarred in childhood by the softened Disney adaptation, it may seem scarcely credible that Salten's original novel could be still more great and terrible in its presentation of a fawn's first bewildered encounters with pain, death, and sex – but it is. Though Bambi is easily read as an environmentalist or anti-hunting fable, more recent critics suggest "the text is really best understood not when dehistoricized (as presented by Disney), but rather when read within the specific context of Vienna of the 1920s, as a text that has to do with anti-Semitism and the struggle for a Jewish identity."
Salten, born Siegmund Saltzmann, was a Viennese theatre critic, novelist, and screenwriter; author of two other books adapted into Disney films (Perri and the Hound of Florence (The Shaggy Dog)); assumed author of the notorious erotic novel Josephine Mutzenbacher; and nemesis of Karl Kraus. After his works were banned by Hitler in 1936, he and his family emigrated to Switzerland, where he remained until his death. Hillary Hope Herzog, "Vienna Is Different": Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin de Siecle to the Present.
Condition Report
Minor bumping, slight spine lean.
Faint evidence of sticker removal rear paste-down.
Jacket toned, with expert restoration to spine and extremities.
Dimensions
Feature(s)
Language
Subject
Conditions of Business
Please note that the cancellation right for EU/UK purchasers applies to this item. Please read Condition 19 of the Buy Now Marketplace Conditions of Business for buyers for more information. Read more here.