Marcel Beyer, The Karnau Tapes: A Novel, translated from the German by John Brownjohn (Orlando: Harcourt Brace, 1997).
Ulli Lust, Voices in the Dark, based on a Novel by Marcel Beyer, translated from the German by John Brownjohn, English lettering by Kevin Cannon (New York: New York Review Comics, 2017) (From the back cover: "Germany, in the final years of the Third Reich, Hermann Karnau is a sound engineer obsessed with recording the human voices in all its variations--the ranting of leaders, the road of crowds, the rasp of throats contracted in fear--and indifferent to everything else. Employed by the Nazis, his assignments take him to party rallies, to the Eastern Front, and into the household of Joseph Goebbels. There he meets Helga, the eldest daughter: bright, good-natured, and just beginning to suspect the horror that surrounds her. . ."
