A review by ominousevent
Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art by Lewis Hyde

2.0

There was enough interesting stuff in this book to leave me frustrated by how little I liked it overall. Perhaps I was just sick of Hermes, but the best reading came when Hyde compared and contrasted artists and other real people with the trickster archetype; for the most part, this was a slog through repetitive investigation of folk tales and mythology that I thought could have been covered much more concisely. Maybe Hyde's style of writing just isn't for me. I can't think of another reason why I found reading this such a grind.

The most engaging part of the book ("Trickster and Gender") was shunted into the appendices, which gave me a sad face.