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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.
In 1973 Doubleday wisely reissued The Young Visiters , and it got a rave review by Alan Friedman in The New York Times . He called it “a tiny novel that begs comparison with giants: Tolstoy's War and Peace , Flaubert's Sentimental Education , and Lawrence's Women in Love may be bigger, but The Young Visiters too manages to contain and display, more gracefully than the giants, an entire civilization.”
We loved the story and the characters, but we had never heard of Flaubert or Tolstoy.
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.
The Washington Post 's Marie Arana-Ward goes one better, claiming that Atwood at times rivals Flaubert.