In another novel, the protagonist and his classmate Kemmerich are encouraged to take part in this event by Kantorek.
In one book about this event, Volpatte sorts through his belongings with "a housewife's solicitous eyes," a man is scorned because he is ill instead of injured, and thus uninteresting, and another man pays twenty-five sous for Camembert (KAH-men-bear) that tastes like glue and plaster. Henri Barbusse (bar-BOOS) won a Prix Goncourt (pree gone-CORE) for his novel about this event, which is the setting for a novel in which a man who likes giving long, idiotic explanations about everyday objects like thermometers and postage stamps is run over by a cart while explaining what a pavement is. The protagonist of that novel is so absurdly patriotic that he is arrested for (*) treason before being sent to a madhouse, and before this event made a living as a dog thief. In another novel, the protagonist and his classmate Kemmerich are encouraged to take part in this event by Kantorek. For 10 points, name this conflict described in Under Fire, The Good Soldier vejk, and All Quiet on the Western Front.
In one book about this event, Volpatte sorts through his belongings with "a housewife's solicitous eyes," a man is scorned because he is ill instead of injured, and thus uninteresting, and another man pays twenty-five sous for Camembert (KAH-men-bear) that tastes like glue and plaster.
World War I [or the First World War; or the Great War]