Lewis Hyde

The Gift (eBook, ePUB)

How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What are the most important gifts in life?
What is the value of art in our society?
Are we in danger of ignoring our most precious commodity?

A brilliantly argued defence of the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-orientated society, The Gift is a modern classic. It is even more relevant now than when it originally appeared twenty years ago. One of the most acclaimed books of the year, beloved by artists, writers and thinkers, The Gift will transform the way you look at the world.

'Buy several copies: one for yourself and the rest for friends interested in, well, anything.' Geoff Dyer

'Hopeful, beautiful and profound. It will change the way you look at everything.' Independent on Sunday

'Tiger balm for tired minds.' Sunday Times

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Severn House
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847673602
• Artikelnr.: 38355271

Autorenporträt

Lewis Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator and cultural critic with a particular interest in the public life of the imagination. In addition to The Gift, he is the author of Trickster Makes This World; Common as Air; A Primer for Forgetting; and a book of poems, This Error is the Sign of Love. He has also published two volumes of translations of Nobel laureate Vicente Aleixandre's poetry and is the editor of On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg and The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau. A MacArthur Fellow and former Director of Creative Writing at Harvard University, Hyde was the Richard L. Thomas Professor in Creative Writing at Kenyon College until his retirement in 2018. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife, the writer Patricia Vigderman.

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Rezensionen

A masterpiece . . . THE GIFT is the best book I know of for the aspiring young, for talented but unacknowledged creators, or even for those who have achieved material success and are worried that this means they've sold out. It gets at the core of their dilemma: how to maintain yourself alive in a world of money, when the essential part of what you do cannot be bought or sold Margaret Atwood