See below for the introductory post about Bambi. This post compares the old translation and the new translation; let’s call them OT and NT. My edition of the OT was kindly purchased for me by my traumatized reader (see intro post) from a used book shop in Tennessee. It had previously been given as a… Continue reading Bambi (part II)
Month: March 2022
Bambi (part I)
I have a reader who maintains that Disney’s Bambi practically ruined what good disposition he had, if he had any. He’s also been haunted by the cold war since listening to the Army-McCarthy hearings in his crib, and one of the cold-war specters haunting him is Whittaker Chambers, who first translated Felix Salten’s Bambi into… Continue reading Bambi (part I)