Knapsacks

Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Originally written in 1877 and then reworked for inclusion in the 1880 Naturalist anthology Les Soirées de Médan, this novella tells the story of the daily life of a French conscript during the Franco-Prussian war—a life of tears, lice, and filth.
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