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Nevertheless, Madame Bovary is a great book.
The second essay wittily assesses the literary value of the report, comparing it with classic novels of adultery such as Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina . Starr offers unnecessarily colorful detail: "Instead of prosecuting a case, his narrative enacts a drama, and makes sympathetically banal what might have been merely illegal."
Arguing that "Antisocial Personality Disorder" is not really what the DSM says it is, is like arguing that Madame Bovary didn't really do all those things Flaubert said she did.
Just as an example: I almost wish I didn't know that the inscription Emma Bovary put on the walking stick she gave to her lover, Rodolphe, was stolen verbatim from a gift that Gustave Flaubert got himself, from his lover Louise Colet.