... events, but the poetic awakening of the people who figured in those events" (42). This poetic awakening in "Crabwalk" is achieved through revisiting history in order to rewrite and revise it. History is humanized and personalized in this novel by making Paul born on a lifeboat on the night of incident and through a reunion of the survivors of the ship. This is the way the characters in the novel obtain historical ... of it"." (Crabwalk 171). Paul in the light of the evidences and research on internet tries to revise German history in order to appease the hatred and prejudice against Russ...

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