... revisits the history of Nazi Germany and World War II. Grass chooses an indirect, but subtle way, to communicate the real essence of Nazi Germany through, persons, places, objects and symbols. In fact, the plot, setting and characters in the novel combine to generate the whole process of historical revisionism. In "Crabwalk", Grass has presented history as a kaleidoscope creating different patterns ... his own shiftlessness as a father "(n.p). But apart from characters, "Crabwalk" is Grass's attempt to neutralize history by representing its multifaceted essence as Napoleon put it "What ...

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