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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0722.00013.] This paper is an interesting discussion on the following question raised by \textit{S. Kobayashi} [Bull. Am. Math. Soc. 82, No. 3, 357-416 (1976; Zbl 0346.32031)]: Is the canonical bundle \(K_ X\) of a compact hyperbolic complex manifold \(X\) ample? Among other things, the author shows that when \(K_ X\) is trivial and \(X\) is Kähler it is sufficient to study the above problem in the following three cases: tori, Calabi-Yau manifolds and symplectic manifolds (i.e. complex manifolds with \(\pi_ 1=0\) and a holomorphic 2-form having everywhere maximal rank). The main result in the paper is the following theorem. Let \(X\) be a compact symplectic manifold and \(k\) be a Kähler class on \(X\). Let \(C(X,k)\) be the Calabi family of complex structures on \(X\) determined by \(X\) and \(k\). Then there exists (at least) one \(a \in C (X,k)\) such that the complex manifold \((X,a)\) is not hyperbolic. The proof is based on a twistor space construction due to \textit{S. M. Salamon} [Invent. Math. 67, No. 1, 143-171 (1982; Zbl 0486.53048)] and the deformation theory of the twistor fibres of the twistor space \(Z\) of \(X\). Using an argument of \textit{R. Brody} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 235, 213- 219 (1978; Zbl 0416.32013)] the author obtains a nonconstant horizontal holomorphic map from \(\mathbb{C}\) to \(Z\) as a degenerate deformation of such a fibre.