The Gift by Lewis Hyde

The Gift by Lewis Hyde

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The Gift by 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 The Gift and remain unchanged. --David Foster Wallace


By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. This book is even more necessary today than when it first appeared.

An illuminating and transformative book, and completely original in its view of the world, The Gift is cherished by artists, writers, musicians, and thinkers. It is in itself a gift to all who discover the classic wisdom found in its pages.

The Gift: Imagination and the Sexual Life of Property, This Error Is the Sign of Love, and Trickster Creates This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art (FSG, 1998) are among Lewis Hyde's works. Hyde, a MacArthur Fellow and former director of Harvard University's undergraduate creative writing program, lectures at Kenyon College during the fall semesters. Thomas is a professor of creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the rest of the year, where he works as a faculty associate at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

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ISBN 13 9780307279507
ISBN 10 0307279502
Titel The Gift
Autor Lewis Hyde
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Random House USA Inc
Erscheinungsjahr 2007-12-04
Seitenanzahl 435
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