Bambi, storia di una vita nel bosco

Bambi is one of Disney's darkest films, but it's lighthearted whimsy compared to the original novel which would require trigger warnings nowadays. Thumper is brutally slaughtered as gunshots reverberate throughout the meadow and pools of blood stain the daisies. Death is everywhere--even in the tree Leggi tutto

How come I have never read this little treasure before now? Bambi: A life in the Woods is a true classic of children’s literature, with passages of great joy and also of deep regret and sorrow; exhilarating, but also occasionally savage, and heavy with exquisite prose descriptions of the woods and c Leggi tutto

Book Review Bambi , a children's / young adult book published in 1923 by Felix Salten , is very different than the one we've seen from Walt Disney. Many have seen the cartoon versions, felt sad for the death and know it as a classic "growing-up" book for kids. But it's really a whole lot mo

Este libro me ha gustado más de lo que esperaba y sorprendido muchísimo. Es muy melancólico y triste, habla de la muerte, la soledad y la relación del ser humano con los animales. Está contado de una manera muy especial, realmente sientes que los animales se comportan como animales y sienten como el Leggi tutto

Read this book some time ago and all the family really enjoyed the story. A timeless classic that I needed tissues for when I read to the children. Pure nostalgia.

Are you ready to be surprised? I was. From the content of this book, I thought that it had been written in the 1930's. Salten was an Austrian Jew (born Siegmund Salzmann), and the story seemed to me wholly allegorical of the persecution of Jews during those years and after, into the Second World War. Leggi tutto