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Trickster Makes This World

By: Lewis Hyde, Michael Chabon - foreword
Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
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In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories—Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote in North America, among others—and then holds them up against the lives and work of more recent creators: Picasso, Duchamp, Ginsberg, John Cage, and Frederick Douglass. Twelve years after its first publication, Trickster Makes This World—authoritative in its scholarship, loose-limbed in its style—has taken its place among the great works of modern cultural criticism.

This new edition includes an introduction by Michael Chabon.

©1998 Lewis Hyde; Foreword copyright 2010 by Michael Chabon (P)2022 Tantor
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The author should have read the book. I bought because I heard him on a podcast. His voice is way better

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Brilliant, clear and concise

Wow. A brilliant series of ideas wonderful presented and laid out, deconstructing the role of the trickster in world myth and with wonderful applications of the role mirrored in real life historical figures. A must for all writers and storytellers.

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WOAH!!

I tried reading the paperback version of this book twice but it was quite a slog. Sensing that there’s a treasure of gold in this book, I tried the audiobook version. What a difference! With a lively narrator, this massive information becomes a college course taught by an engaging story teller. Listening to this audiobook (although long) was enjoyable and well worth the money and the time.

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Don’t like the voice

I had a hard time following the narration. The writing is insightful, and I appreciated Hyde’s logic and research.

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The text says so little about so much

It touches on many subjects of interest but doesn’t really build anything greater than the sum of its parts. Really surface level on many areas. Even the Trickster as a subject seems irrelevant to it at times and not that thoroughly explored compared to other texts that cover it in a much briefer but dense way. Whole sections seem like they could be cut. Maybe a better editor was needed cuz it felt like he was taking a long time to say very little.

It’s like when your coworker tells you a story about going to the grocery store but they have to talk about the five other errands they did first as setup but you forget the point before it moves on to another story. Pretty frustrating

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