Felix Salten: Man of Many Faces (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture and Thought)

Today known primarily as the author of Bambi, Felix Salten
(1869-1945) played a prominent role in the cultural life of Vienna as social critic, essayist, playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. He founded the city's first cabaret, wrote
operetta librettos, and penned books about his travels to Palestine
and to the United States. He was an authoritative voice on matters of
the theater, served as active and honorary President of the Vienna
P.E.N.-club, wrote a weekly column for Theodor Herzl s Zionist
newspaper, and was, in the words of his harshest critic Karl Kraus,
'the best journalist in Vienna.'
This biographical study firmly positions the multi-faceted Salten
within his Vienna context.