The New York Times Book Review, Paul Mattick
Hyde never makes it clear how he has selected his culture heroes, and in any case, apart from the first two or three, his efforts to identify them as tricksters are unconvincing.... Hyde thinks one of Trickster's lessons is the anthropologist's insight that we take for reality is often just inherited cultural categories. It is a lesson he has yet to take as seriously as it deserves.
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The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, Margaret Atwood
Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art is Lewis Hyde's second masterpiece of--well, of what? Of wondering, of pertinent storytelling, pondering. Of making connections that seem both absolutely true and absolutely obvious once Hyde has made them but which we've somehow never noticed before. He's one of those quirky, eccentric Wise Children the United States sometimes throws up--a sort of Thoreau-cum-anthropologist-cum-seer, an asker of naive questions that turn out to be the reverse of naive, fascinated by why we behave the way we do, and why our right hand is often so blind to what our left hand is up to, and why it matters, especially to that elusive entity we've named the soul. Robert Bly calls Hyde a mythologist, which sort of fits, but perhaps he could also be called an illuminationist. In short, he casts light.... Hyde's book is a glorious grab bag stuffed with necessary loot, a joyful plum pudding rich in treasures. Once more, we are indebted to him.
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