Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art - Hardcover

Hyde, Lewis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847672248 ISBN 13: 9781847672247

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2008

Synopsis

Trickster Makes This World brings to life the playful and disruptive side of the human imagination as it is embodied in the trickster mythology. Most at home on the road or at the twilight edge of town, tricksters are consummate boundary-crossers, slipping through keyholes, breaching walls subverting defence systems. Always out to satisfy their inordinate appetites, lying, cheating and stealing, trickster are a great bother to have around but paradoxically they are also indispensable heroes. In this fascinating book, Lewis Hyde explores the old myths that state that the trickster made the world as it actually is. He argues that our world, with its complexity and ambiguity, its beauty and its dirt, was trickster’s creation, and the work is not yet finished.

About this title

Review:

'Hyde is persuasive and is at his most interesting on contemporary tricksters.' -- Colin Waters, Sunday Herald

This captivating book is crammed with similar nuggets of analysis, erudition and wisdom. -- Spectator

a moral commentary about individuality which is urgently needed now -- FT Magazine

Review:

'Hyde is persuasive and is at his most interesting on contemporary tricksters.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1847672248
• ISBN 13: 9781847672247
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432