Salten

[ sawl-tn; German zahl-tuhn ]

noun

1. Fe·lix [fee, -liks, fey, -liks], Siegmund Salzman, 1869–1945, Austrian novelist, in Switzerland after 1938.

Example Sentences

Among the fascinating aspects of Howsare’s cultural history is the impact of the Disneyfication of the Felix Salten novel “Bambi.”

From Los Angeles Times

After all, McKibben situates Felix Salten’s own writings in the context of “the turbulence of interwar Europe, with Bolshevism and fascism threatening all” and in the context of the struggles of an Austro-Hungarian Jewish author who “fled to Switzerland when the Nazis rose to power.”

From New York Times

Among the many works in this year’s public domain trove — now that their requisite 95-year period has ended under U.S. copyright law — are Felix Salten’s original “Bambi, a Life in the Woods” novel; titles by Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes and Dorothy Parker; classic silent films and Broadway songs; and about 400,000 pre-1923 sound recordings.

From Washington Post

Both Winnie-the-Pooh and Felix Salten’s Bambi, A Life in the Woods head into the public domain today.

From The Verge

When I was very young — like 3 and 4 — my mother read “Black Beauty,” by Anna Sewell, and “Bambi, a Life in the Woods,” by Felix Salten, out loud to me.

From New York Times