Knapsacks - Paperback

by J. -K Huysmans (Author), Joris Karl Huysmans (Author)

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.