![]() ![]() A little like a wartime correspondent witnessing the ceaseless struggle for the survival of the species. In many ways, Felix Salten just made notes of everything he observed during his walks and hunting excursions, and then reflected on it with the unflinching realism of a trained journalist. The latter would have made Salten a prescient sage, an intellectual forerunner of Greta Thunberg, 100 years before global warming was a widely recognized problem.įelix Salten found inspiration for his novel during his long walks through the Stockerauer Au near Zögersdorf where he used to hunt, and in the vicinity of his house in the bourgeois Vienna Cottage District (Wiener Cottageviertel) with its - back then still limitless - views of the Vienna Woods. Some saw it as a parable for the slaughter during the first World War, some even saw a coded erotic story, still, others interpreted it as a condemnation of technology apostles disturbing the balance of nature by destroying natural woodlands. ![]() Since its publication in 1923, there has been a lot of speculation about the deeper meaning behind Salten’s novel. ![]()
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