What was Felix Salten’s real name?
Felix Salten’s real name is Siegmund Salzmann.
Under the pen name “Salten,” the German author wrote Bambi (1923). The first English translation was published in 1928.
Felix Salten’s real name is Siegmund Salzmann.
Under the pen name “Salten,” the German author wrote Bambi (1923). The first English translation was published in 1928.
Melville’s model of passive resistance Bartleby the Scrivener calmly replies to his boss, “I would prefer not to.” The short story “Bartleby the Scrivener” was first published anonymously in Putnam’s Magazine in 1853.
The epigraph for Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo is “So foul a sky clears not without a storm” (Shakespeare).
At the beginning of Henry Fielding’s novel Tom Jones (1749), it appears his mother is Jenny Jones, servant of Squire Allworthy. By the end of the novel, his true mother is revealed: Bridget, Squire Allworthy’s sister. Henry
Finnegan in Finnegans Wake is an Irish hod carrier who dies after a fall. At his wake, he is momentarily returned to life at the mention of the word “whiskey.” The name also refers to legendary Irish hero Finn MacCool, who is supposed to “wake again” someday to save Ireland.
The most complete treatment is the Argonautica by third-century poet Apollonius of Rhodes.
Scylla, a female six-headed monster, captured sailors and ate them. Charybdis was a whirlpool (or a creator of whirlpools) that swallowed ships. The two creatures lay in wait on either side of the Straits of Messina between Italy and Sicily. Their story is told in Homer’s Odyssey (ninth century B.C.).