Crabwalk.Gunter Grass Noun 1. Gunter Grass - German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927) Gunter Wilhelm Grass, Grass . (Trans. from German by Krishna Winston). 2002/2003. Read by George Guidall. 5 tapes. 6.75 hrs. Recorded Books. #97362. 1-4025-4383-2. $36.00. Vinyl; plot, reader notes. A Nobel Laureate Noun 1. Nobel Laureate - winner of a Nobel prize Nobelist laureate - someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath 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 Scuttling is the act of deliberately sinking a ship by allowing water to flow into the hull. This can be achieved in several ways - valves or hatches can be opened to the sea, or holes may be ripped into the hull with brute force or with explosives. sideways and thereby [is] working [his] way forward rather rapidly." Grass writes in the first person as a journalist who is exploring his life, three generations of his family, and German history from the Third Reich Third Reich Official designation for the Nazi Party's regime in Germany from January 1933 to May 1945. The name reflects Adolf Hitler's conception of his expansionist regime—which he predicted would last 1,000 years—as the presumed successor of the Holy Roman to the present by crabwalking back and forth from the present to the past. Audie Award winning reader Guidall's semi-voiced reading captures Grass's personal storytelling mode very well. In his masterful reading, Guidall expresses a wide range of emotions, from surprise to horror to resignation, as Grass slowly unfolds the complex, intertwined tales. Hugh Flick, Jr., Silliman College Silliman College is a residential college at Yale University. It opened September 1940 as the last of the original ten residential colleges, and includes buildings that were constructed as early as 1901. , Yale Univ., New Haven, CT |
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