Prompted by the review in The New Yorker of the new translation of Felix Salten's Bambi, I started reading Salten's The City Jungle. The zoo animals communicate among themselves, but they and their hated (for the most part) human captors are unintelligible to each other. The humans do not come off well. And the animals are well aware of their mortality.
Prompted by the review in The New Yorker of the new translation of Felix Salten's Bambi, I started reading Salten's The City Jungle. The zoo animals communicate among themselves, but they and their hated (for the most part) human captors are unintelligible to each other. The humans do not come off well. And the animals are well aware of their mortality.