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Those people in the story will cry, laugh, grieve, and cry. But they will be happy in the end, just as you will be happy.
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That's not all. There is also the question of deeper cognitive aspects here, and the possibility of presenting those perceptions is itself questionable. If anyone intends to take two or three hundred years from the history of the horse and expound it, he will find that the literature alone on the multitude of roles of horses in different, highly differentiated cultural contexts has overwhelmed him. Every step forward he takes requires thinking about the great divergences between the various research arguments, and it is impossible for him to form a general understanding of the different research controversies, and therefore to repeat them in general. Even the studies of Indians by North American anthropologists over the past 100 years cannot be summarized in a few pages. Of course, some people will jump out of the existing research results like the German-American anthropologist Franz Boas, and some people will use these studies as the basis for their creations, like the German literary master Carl May. The lack of a stable basis is a fundamental problem commonly encountered by all scholars who want to synthesize and generalize history, especially those who study global history. A lot of footnotes—as I do in this book—are actually all the hole cards that have been laid out so far. However, this is only a matter of assessment, without giving a corresponding answer; The louder the arguments of the research and the controversy of the professional literature, the more striking the silence of the real protagonist who stays on the other side: the horse remains silent.
"Le cheval n'a pas de patrie" – says Michel Ney, one of the three masters of the French Imperial Army. But isn't this the right time to leave the horse with residency in our accounts of the past? I have an idea that came up more than 20 years ago, that is, to write a history about the long 19th century, where the center of the stage is not the usual french emperor Napoleon, Austrian Prime Minister Clemens Metternich, the first prime minister of the German Empire Bismarck and others, but the mysterious hero and hidden protagonist of the 19th century, the horse. At the time, I was also imagining helping the historic protagonist make his voice heard. This dream is not unattainable because of the obscurity of the subject and the lack of information, but rather because of the overload of information caused by too much discussion and related papers. People don't use stables as a narrative point of view, but always sit in the library and build cars behind closed doors. The reason why people never leave the library is because it houses some literary works about horses left by delicate and empathetic authors, as well as other high-profile literary works, such as Mémoires d'un cheval d'escadron (dictées par lui-même, 1864) by Theodore Sidari, and Life of a Horse by John Mills Racehorse ,1865), Anna Sevier's Black Beauty (1877), to Lev Tolstoy's Der Leinwandmesser (1886), Mark Twain's A Horse's Tale (1905), D. H. Lawrence's St. Mawr, 1925), until Michael Mopperg's War Horse (1982); in these works, the horse is either the protagonist or is given the status of a first person. Thus we cannot say that one cannot approach the unique intelligent world of the horse and its sensual life; at the end of this book I will in any case try to point out such a possibility through a few hints. My first real book on horses would not come out until I was "born again" as a horse. The book in the reader's hand now is not a book about horses, but a work written by a historian about the end of an era in which man and horse once made history together. Notice that it is not writing, but creation, for only one of the pair has always been writing; nevertheless, one's life is not enough to read all their accounts of the other.
For a long time, I've wondered if I should be writing this book for historians to show my peers who are the protagonists of history they've been ignoring and what cognitive opportunities they've missed. It would be very gratifying to me if any of today's historians read my book and began to realize something as a result. All in all, it can be said that I am writing this book for everyone, or I am not writing this book for anyone—and to say so would make the title seem outstanding and high-profile. Of course, there is no doubt that this statement is not entirely correct. I wrote this book for my mother, who loved horses and knew horses. Whether she liked the book or not, I have no way of knowing. It's been 10 years since I was able to ask her this question for the last time.
Excerpt from "The Horseshoe Drifting Away"
[Germany] by Ulrich Laulf
Translated by Dong Lu
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To mankind's intimate old companion, the horse
A book about the end of an era —
In that era, man and horse used to make history together
A horse's requiem
Poetic, intelligent, with depth
Nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Awards 2016
In December 2015, SZ/NDR ranked 4th in non-fiction books
★ "The Horseshoe of the Drifting Away" uses rich and delicate brushstrokes to describe the deep friendship between humans and horses, and the journey of eventual farewell.
★ "The Drifting Horseshoe" shows the image and role of horses in human history, politics, art, literature and other fields, and tells many stories about horses.
★ In "The Horseshoe That Drifts Away", the author composes a requiem for the long-suffering and noble creature of the horse, so that we can understand the long-term impact of the horse on our world and wave goodbye to it as it drifts away.
Ulrich Laulf composed a requiem for this long-suffering and noble creature and placed the horse in the central role of the creator of the modern world.
—The Washington Post
For many years the horse, as a companion to humans, a darling of academia, a creator in the field of art, it was not as mediocre as other animals. The years at the end of the horse's era fit perfectly with the entire period of the 19th century, from the Napoleonic era to the First World War. After the centaurs were broken, and in the years after the end of the Second World War, the horse gradually retired from the stage of human history
- The New York Review of Books
This is a history book about horses that is both realistic and sensual and spiritual (intellectual).
- Der Spiegel
There is a feeling of joy and indulgence when you have the privilege of riding a horse through the open land, and so is reading this book... You'll never know what's going to happen in the next paragraph or the next sentence, and it's dizzying.
—The Wall Street Journal
"It was a beautiful and thoughtful exploration of the role of the horse in creating the world. This book is not only a mature history book, but also lyrical and creative. I liked it very much.
—James Rebanks
There is an ancient, deep and complex relationship between horses and humans. "For thousands of years, horses have provided strength and speed that humans lack. The need for this extraordinary animal narrates how we travel, farm, and fight.
This book is a fascinating and wonderful text, a moving discussion of what horses once meant to us. Horses as human needs shape cities, farmland, and entire industries.
Horses as a basis have intervened in uncountable historical events. They are carved, painted, cherished, praised; They were beaten, abused and exposed to terrible danger. From the Roman Empire to the Napoleonic Empire, every conqueror of the world needed to be displayed on a horse.
This German bestseller by Ulrich Laulf is a magnificent monument to the various animals that have long shared and shaped our destiny.
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About the Author
Ulrich Laulf, curator of the German Literary Archives, has served as editor-in-chief of the supplement of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and editor-in-chief of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. His book Kreis ohne Meister (Circle Without Masters) won the Leipzig Book Fair Award in 2010 as the best documentary work. His work on Mark Bloch and Abbey Waalberg won the Anna-Krüger Prize for Academic Paper and the Ernst-Robert-Curtius Prize for Dissertation, respectively.
Translator Profile
Dong Lu, University Professor and Translator, graduated from the Department of Sociology of Peking University, the Master of Media Economics of the Media University of Stuttgart, Germany, and the Doctor of Communication Literature of the Communication University of China. His translations include "The Spiral of Silence", "Critique of Commodity Aesthetics", "What is Morality", "Intergenerational Care of the Family", "Acceleration", "Albert Camus: A Free Life", "The Age of Understanding: Kafka's Life" and so on.
Synopsis
Horses have grown with human beings and helped human society to continue to progress. But from the Napoleonic era to the end of the First World War, due to the development of science and technology and industrialization, the role of horses in human society became less and less obvious, and even almost disappeared from the stage of human history. This book uses rich and delicate brushstrokes to describe the deep friendship between humans and horses and the process of finally moving towards farewell, showing the image and role of horses in human history, politics, art, literature and other fields, and telling many stories about horses. The book is also a tour of the horse's role in shaping human history.
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