Farewell to the Horse

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 Zürcher Zeitung *Great cultural history * Der Tagesspiegel *Ulrich Raulff is a wonderful storyteller * Südwestrundfunk *

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 Süddeutsche Zeitung. He has written books on Marc Bloch and Aby Warburg and won both the Anna Krüger 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.