Nietzsche’s Crushing Epiphany with the Horse: Fact, Fiction or a Melange?

William Keckler
1 min readApr 18, 2019

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I think Chris Townsend has done the best and most convincing writing on the perhaps apocryphal “Incident of the Horse” in Nietzsche’s life.

This is a blog post from 2017 which was posted on the L.A. Review of Books website.

Good ferreting! Good digestion! Snopes for the literary-minded.

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William Keckler
William Keckler

Written by William Keckler

Writer, visual artist. Books include Sanskrit of the Body, which won in the U.S. National Poetry Series (Penguin). https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/532348.

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