A magical, wise and beguiling history of all the ways in which our world has been made by the horse.
Ulrich Raulff is Director of the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar. Previously, he was Literary Editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Managing Editor of the S ddeutsche Zeitung. He has written books on Marc Bloch and Aby Warburg and won both the the Anna Kr ger Prize and the Ernst Robert Curtius Prize for Essay Writing. His book on the influence of the German poet Stefan George was awarded the 2010 Leipzig Book Fair Prize.
A beautiful and thoughtful exploration of the role of the horse in
creating our world... lyrical and creative...I very much enjoyed
it. Some of the scenes in it will stay with me for a long time to
come * James Rebanks *
Intellectual and passionate ... Raulff's material is gloriously
diverse ... [a] refined and ambitious book * The Sunday Times *
It becomes evident within three paragraphs that you have never read
a book like it ... his writerly pace is exhilarating -- Kate
Kellaway * Observer *
Covers ground as rapidly and thrillingly as a Cossack horseman. It
lays bare a dizzying network of connections and repeatedly offers
unfamiliar approached to old themes * Literary Review *
Sex, violence and 6,000 years of horse power... an elegy to the way
horses have galloped through our culture' -- Melanie Reid * The
Times *
This is not the Pony Club Manual or a trot through the more
familiar sights of equestrian art history; it's Kafka, Aby Warburg,
Tolstoy, psychoanalytic theory, Nietzsche and bleak monochrome
photos in the style of Sebald. This epic enterprise is relieved by
Raulff's spare, vivid style and deep learning -- Susannah Forrest *
Literary Review *
A brilliant, entertaining tour-de-force * Die Zeit *
Amazing insights sweep through the book - an entrancing history
packed with stories * Neue Zurcher Zeitung *
Great cultural history * Der Tagesspiegel *
Ulrich Raulff is a wonderful storyteller * Sudwestrundfunk *
A fabulous book -- Uli Hufen
An exciting and entertaining ride through various landscapes --
Harry Nutt
Strange and fascinating . . . A sweeping cultural history, more
kaleidoscopic than totale, as bibliographical as it is
historical . . . Farewell to the Horse is a whirlwind that
seems capable of drawing into its vortex almost anyone who ever
thought of a horse. -- Verlyn Klinkenborg * New York Review of
Books *
A remarkably nimble, creative thinker . . . Raulff's text is
somehow dreamy but not sentimental . . . A brilliant examination of
our complicated and violently unilateral relationship with Equus
caballus . . . Though this book is about horses, it is just as much
about thinking as a devotional act. -- C. E. Morgan * New York
Times Book Review *
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