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I recently reread Marshall Berman’s superb 1987 book, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: the Experience of Modernity. The author devoted a chapter to the eighteenth century German writer Wolfgang Goethe’s reworking of the medieval fable of Doctor Faust - the figure whose dealings with the devil gave us the adjective ‘Faustian.’
Berman’s summary of Goethe’s Faust: A Tragedy, set up a strange echo in my mind to a book of more recent vintage - a biography of a famous doctor who’s entirely real.
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