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.
- ISBN10 1847672248
- ISBN13 9781847672247
- Publish Date 7 February 2008 (first published 31 December 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 July 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Canongate Books
- Edition Main
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 432
- Language English