Margaret Atwood on how an inspired polymath resurrected Native America’s epics

Robert Bringhurst’s "A Story as Sharp as a Knife" is not only a testament to a monumental labour of love and intellect; it is an astonishing and essential book. But astonishing how, and essential why? Astonishing and essential to anyone interested in storytelling, and stories, and how they move, and their local and universal nature, and what functions they may fulfil in their society. To anyone interested in what makes us human, with language at the top of the list.
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