Title
Krebs, Cancer, Crab(s): Homing in on Hemingway’s "Soldier’s Home"
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Addresses the irony in the story’s title and how it relates to the significance of Krebs’s unusual name, which purportedly means “cancer” in German and could explain Krebs’s “crabby attitude” toward social conventions in his postwar community.
Published in
Germanic Notes and Reviews
Volume
25
Issue
2
Date
Fall 1994
Pages
7-8
COinS
Citation
Fleissner, R. F. “Krebs, Cancer, Crab(s): Homing in on Hemingway’s ‘Soldier’s Home.’” Germanic Notes and Reviews 25, no. 2 (Fall 1994): 7-8.