![]() ![]() But as editor of Princeton University Press’s Oddly Modern Fairy Tales series, he was intrigued.Īs he researched, Zipes made “a stunning discovery”: a nearly forgotten author and a story much richer than he could have imagined. As one of the nation’s pre-eminent fairytale scholars (he was the first to translate the entire Brothers Grimm collection from the original German), he knew as much about the story as most people-that the story was a classic Disney film, bursting with cheerful woodland creatures and swells of orchestral music. ![]() Zipes hesitated to take the idea seriously. Would he like to do a new translation of Bambi from the original German? An English version had not been published since 1928. While at a Modern Language Association annual conference a few years ago, Jack Zipes was approached by representatives from one of his former publishers with a proposition. ![]()
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