... the historical novel is not the retelling of great historical 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 specificity. According ... ...

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