Elmar Tophoven Książki

The aged and bedridden protagonist (Molloy / Moran / Malone) awaits death, telling stories about other personifiations of himself to pass the time.

In Waiting for Godot , two wandering tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, wait by a lonely tree, to meet up with Mr. Godot, an enigmatic figure in a world where time, place and memory are blurred and meaning is where you find it. The tramps hope that Godot will change their lives for the better. Instead, two eccentric travelers arrive, one man on the end of the other's rope. The results are both funny and dangerous in this existential masterpiece.

"During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three witnesses, involved with him during his lifetime in different capacities - a distant relative, an orderly and a jockey who had an affair with his wife - remember him and help the reader piece together the realities behind the man and his death"-- Provided by publisher

Samuel Becketts Verse wurden von Elmar Tophoven und Karl Krolow ins Deutsche übersetzt. Beide Autoren ergänzen ihre "Flötentöne" mit Werkstattberichten, in denen sie die Herausforderungen der Übersetzung erläutern und kommentieren.