Crabwalk (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Gunter Grass
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: Mainly 1936, 1945, and 1996
- Setting: Germany
- Principal Characters: Paul Pokriefke, Ursula “Tulla” Pokriefke, Wilhelm Gustloff, David Frankfurter, Konrad “Konny” Pokriefke, Wolfgang “David” Stremplin, “Grass, Aleksander Marinesko
- Genres: Long fiction, Translation, Novel
- Subjects: Mothers, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, World War II, Victims, War, Death or dying, Assassination, Nazism or Nazis, Martyrs or martyrdom, Warships, Germany or German people, Internet, Boats or boating
- Locales: Germany
With a simple question, Günter Grass and his alter ego, “Günter Grass,” plunge the reader into the tortured postwar German psyche. When the character with no name, who is obviously “Grass,” asks the narrator, Paul Pokriefke, “Why only now?” the book begins its many restless, unsettling trips back and forth over the previous fifty years of German history, revealing a damaged postwar generation which is being pushed aside by something that might even be worse. Now, however, Paul has a story to tell, a story that “Grass” did not want told thirty years ago. “Grass”...
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