How long does it take to read Trickster Makes This World?
Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde takes about 7 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 48 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1997. 425 pages, about 116,875 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Lewis Hyde's ambitious and captivating 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 defense systems. Always out to satisfy their inordinate appetites, lying, cheating, and stealing, tricksters are a great bother to have around, but paradoxically they are also indispensable culture heroes. In North America, Coyote taught the race how to dress, sing, and shoot arrows. In West Africa, Eshu discovered the art of divination so that suffering humans might know the purposes of heaven. In Greece, Hermes the Thief invented the art of sacrifice, the trick of making fire, and even language itself. Hyde revisits these old stories, then holds them up against the life and work of more recent creators: Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, Maxine Hong Kingston, Frederick Douglass, and others.
Subjects: Arts, Mythology, Tricksters, Trickster, Mythologie, Oplichting
