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SUPPRESSED ATROCITIES.(Crabwalk)(Book Review)
Rumors from literary Germany this past year have had it that Gunter Grass, in his mid-seventies and heavy with honors, has produced his best and best-selling novel in at least a decade. The grand old man of German criticism, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, no fan of Grass's later work, is reported to have said that the new book--"Im Krebsgang,"in German--moved him to tears. Now it has appeared in English, as "Crabwalk"(translated from the German by Krishna Winston; Harcourt; $25). The book freewheels through a century of history and contains some fiction as well, but its central topic is the sinking of the refugee-laden German ship Wilhelm Gustloff, on January 30, 1945, by a Soviet ...
- Catástrofe naval.(Unión Soviética hunde el barco de refugiados Wilhelm Gustloff...
- Magazine article from: Contenido January 1, 2006 700+ words
1945:30 de enero El barco de recreo Wilhelm Gustloff es torpedeado por un submarino sovitico en aguas del mar Bltico tras zarpar del puerto polaco de Gydnia con rumbo hacia Dinamarca...
- `Crabwalk' by Gunter Grass, translated by Krishna Winston; Harcourt.(The...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Upchurch, Michael April 30, 2003 700+ words
...sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff serves as...springboard of "Crabwalk," the masterful...play in "Crabwalk." The dexterity...survivor of the Wilhelm Gustloff who wants...senses that "Crabwalk" might almost...stirred by the Wilhelm Gustloff Web site...
- War and remembrance.(On the Natural History of Destruction)(CrabWalk)(Book...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Eakin, Hugh March 31, 2003 700+ words
...Random House. 202 pp. $23.95. CrabWalk. By Gunter Grass. Translated...victims with calculated effort in Crabwalk, a 200-page novel based on...torpedoing of the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff in early 1945. Though the Baltic...
- Crabwalk.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Book McCann, Sean March 1, 2003 700+ words
...bestselling sensation when it was published in Germany last year, the novel resurrects the long-forgotten story of the Wilhelm Gustloff--a one-time Nazi passenger liner that was pressed into service as a refugee vessel in the closing days of World War...
- Crabwalk.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Audiobook Review)
- Magazine article from: Kliatt Flick, Hugh, Jr. November 1, 2003 700+ words
...00. Vinyl; plot, reader notes. A Nobel Laureate Gunter Grass weaves together over half a century of German history in Crabwalk. The title evokes a crab, which seems "to go backward but [is] actually scuttling sideways and thereby [is] working...
- The American crabwalk tempo.(COMMENTARY)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times October 15, 2003 700+ words
...sadly put the summer reading season to an official end for me. And with its nip, I close Guenter Grass' latest novel, "Crabwalk." In it, the German writer and Nobel laureate uses a hard, bottom-dwelling crab as a metaphorical device to describe...
- Conscience of a nation.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The New Leader Taylor, Benjamin March 1, 2003 700+ words
Crabwalk By Gunter Grass Translated...arresting examples is surely Crabwalk, his brief and busy new...celebrating the legacy of one Wilhelm Gustloff. A leader of the Swiss...refugee transport ship, the Wilhelm Gustloff, which had been torpedoed...
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- Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine Leonard, John April 1, 2003 700+ words
...very start of CRABWALK (Harcourt...disaster of the Wilhelm Gustloff, named after...Landesgruppenleiter Wilhelm Gustloff. A cruise ship...on board the Wilhelm Gustloff when it was torpedoed...the narrator of Crabwalk in the lifeboat...
