Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain
These highly charged and politicized arguments about the evils of late capitalism transform Devil’s Contract from a work of cultural history into something close to a polemic, one with which you may or may not agree. Simon’s style, moreover, can sometimes veer into the over-emphatic ... Still, these cavils aside, Devil’s Contract reminds us of how often we deludedly exchange something of inestimable value... for what is ultimately glittery trash.
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Provocative, if clunky ... Mr. Simon is at his most inventive when he links Faustian tradeoffs with a panoply of real events and figures ... I commend his passion while remaining skeptical of his patronizing tone and excess of references.
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One might wish for it to be expressed through slightly less heated rhetoric and a more limited focus ... Scholarly and impassioned if sometimes hysterical.
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