Comments & Reviews

"Lewis Hyde's second masterpiece..."—Margaret Atwood, Los Angeles Times Book Review.
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"[A] hymn to the gods of mischief, who are also the gods of artistic and cultural renewal."—Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World.
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"Rich and fascinating... Like the classic tricksters, Hyde is always serious, most profoundly so when he plays around."—Walter Kendrick, The Boston Globe.
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"Lewis Hyde is the most subtle, thorough, and brilliant mythologist we now have. This book is gorgeous."—Robert Bly

"Lewis Hyde is a national treasure, one of our true superstars of nonfiction."—David Foster Wallace

"A major work of scholarship that is also a major work of art."—Sacvan Bercovitch

"Brilliant... By the time he is done he has folded language, culture, and the very habit of being human into his ken."—The New Yorker.

"Equally poetic and scholarly, Trickster reads like an epic world dream."—The Village Voice, naming Trickster one of the best books of 1998.