Lewis Hyde

**“A manifesto of sorts for anyone who makes art [and] cares for it.” —Zadie Smith “The best book I know of for talented but unacknowledged creators. . . . A masterpiece.” —Margaret Atwood “No one who is invested in any kind of art . . . can read... Lire la suite

«En Breviario del olvido, ese aventurero intelectual tan atrevido como sutil que es Lewis Hyde clarifica los insondables misterios del recuerdo y el olvido, el trauma y la recuperación, la conmemoración y la amnesia, la reconciliación y el perdón».... Lire la suite

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... Lire la suite

Lewis Hyde was born in Boston and studied at the Universities of Minnesota and Iowa. In addition to The Gift, he is the author of Trickster Makes this World, a portrait of the kind of disruptive imagination that all cultures need if they are to... Lire la suite

¿Cómo proteger el don de la creatividad en un mundo dominado por el espíritu mercantil donde todo se monetiza? ¿Cómo convencernos y convencer a los demás de que el provecho de la literatura, del arte, de la música está o debería estar en las... Lire la suite

A stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past that continues to enrich our present. Suspicious of the current idea that all creative work is "intellectual property," Lewis Hyde turns to... Lire la suite