New Orleans. Skizzen und Erzählungen

In 1925, William Faulkner, who was completely unknown at the time, published some sketches and short stories in regional journals. Ordinary people are the personnel of these New Orleans based genre pictures, sailors, smugglers, beggars and whores, betrayers and priests. In 1960, these New Orleans sketches by the now world-famous Nobel Prize winner Arno Schmidt were offered for translation. He only took them up, as he said, "for publicity purposes," because he didn't like Faulkner. His German version of the sketches, published in 1962, is nevertheless brilliant - Schmidt was at home in Faulkner's everyday language. Schmidt's discussion with his American writer colleague was continued in the story ' Piporakemes! '. There, an English Faulkner specialist visits a certain Schmidt to hold him accountable for his miserable translation.