Mischief, Myth and Art. Essential reading for all artists/creators/dirt players.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #565667 in Books
• Published on: 1999-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

Review
"Hyde is one of our true superstars of non fiction" David Foster Wallace * 'Hyde is one of our true superstars of non fiction - this book not only covers its subject in more depth and comprehension than anything before (anything I've read, anyway) but it also ends up being about...well, everything. The guy's both brilliant (intellectually, literarily) and wise (psychologically, spiritually, you-name-itally). '-David Foster Wallace * '[Hyde] is one of those quirky, eccentric Wise Children the United States sometimes throws up - a sort of Thoreau-cum-anthropologist-cum-seer...[Trickster] should be read by anyone interested in the grand and squalid matter of all things human...A glorious grab-bag stuffed with necessary loot, a joyful plum pudding rich in treasures.' - Margaret Atwood, Los Angeles Times * 'Brilliant...By the time he is done he has folded language, culture, and the very habit of being human into his ken.' - The New Yorker"

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

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

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Customer Reviews

A neglected archetype gets to ride the "special" bus
"I can't see you, but I know you're there..." (Peter Falk in Wings of Desire) -- The hero, the martyr, the whore-with-a-heart-of-gold, the earth mother, the domineering father, ad nauseum, all the archetypes of our world, and of the worlds from which we come, have been done to death, and exist as fully realized options, niches in society, possibilities, definite shapes -- trickster is much more amorphous, less obvious, less overtly possible as an option, yet somehow always lurking somewhere nearby, stoking the creative fires and putting thumbtacks on unsuspecting seats. Hyde gives trickster the exegesis and the credit he rightly deserves but seems so often to dodge or come late to. Well worth reading, even if you disagree with Hyde's premise (as so many seem to).

Absolutely extraordinary:
No lover of myth, folklore, or the arts should be without it. I can't recommend this book (or The Gift) too highly. Many thanks to Lewis Hyde for these inspiring works.

Please to read this book!
In the time to take to read this book I come to know the tricksters hook.