Trickster Makes This World

´Art is a lie that tells the truth.´ Pablo PicassoPicasso disrupted the world around him, and in doing so he reshaped it. This is the Trickster spirit: playful, mischievous, subversive, amoral. Tricksters are a great bother to have around, but paradoxically they are also indispensable heroes of culture, because our world - with its complexity and ambiguity, its beauty and its dirt - is Trickster´s creation, and the work is not yet finished.Authoritative in its scholarship, supple and dynamic in its style, Trickster Makes This World encourages you to think and see afresh.´Artists of whatever sort need Trickster´s help from time to time. When you´re blocked or stuck, take an aimless walk and let your mind off its leash, and call on Trickster - he´s the opener of dreams, or roads, and of possibilities.´Margaret Atwood´Masterly . . . this book is a revelation.´The Times´Reading Trickster Makes This World - an act of pure pleasure from first to last - forever altered, and profoundly deepened, my understanding of the relationship between storytelling and the world.´Michael Chabon´A masterpiece.´Scotland on Sunday