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Informationen zum Autor Lewis Hyde was born in Boston and studied at the Universities of Minnesota and Iowa. In addition to Trickster Makes This World! he is the author of The Gift! a defence of the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-orientated society. Editor of On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg and The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau! Hyde is now writing a defence of the ´cultural commons´! that vast store of ideas and art we have inherited from the past. A MacArthur Fellow and former Director of Creative Writing at Harvard! Hyde is currently the Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College in Ohio. Klappentext ´Art is a lie that tells the truth.´ Pablo Picasso Picasso disrupted the world around him! and in doing so he reshaped it. This is the Trickster spirit: playful! mischievous! subversive! amoral. Tricksters are a great bother to have around! but paradoxically they are also indispensable heroes of culture! because our world - with its complexity and ambiguity! its beauty and its dirt - is Trickster´s creation! and the work is not yet finished. Authoritative in its scholarship! supple and dynamic in its style! Trickster Makes This World encourages you to think and see afresh. ´Artists of whatever sort need Trickster´s help from time to time. When you´re blocked or stuck! take an aimless walk and let your mind off its leash! and call on Trickster - he´s the opener of dreams! or roads! and of possibilities.´ Margaret Atwood ´Masterly . . . this book is a revelation.´ The Times ´Reading Trickster Makes This World - an act of pure pleasure from first to last - forever altered! and profoundly deepened! my understanding of the relationship between storytelling and the world.´ Michael Chabon ´A masterpiece.´ Scotland on Sunday ´Lewis Hyde´s second masterpiece.´ Margaret Atwood Zusammenfassung "Art is a lie that tells the truth." - Pablo Picasso Picasso disrupted the world around him! and in doing so he reshaped it. That is the Trickster spirit. Playful! mischievous! subversive! amoral. Tricksters are a great bother to have around! but paradoxically they are also indispensable heroes of culture! because ourworld - with its complexity and ambiguity! its beauty and its dirt - was trickster´s creation! and the work is not yet finished. Authoritative in its scholarship! supple and dynamic in its style! Trickster Makes This World encourages you to think and see afresh. ´Artists of whatever sort need Trickster´s help from time to time: when you´re blocked or stuck! take an aimless walk and let your mind off its leash! and call on Trickster. He´s the opener of dreams! of roads! and of possibilities.´ - Margaret Atwood ...
