"Certainly the strangest and arguably one of the most accomplished contemporary writers of fiction in French, Antoine Volodine has created a vast and perplexing universe of bad dreams in several dozen works under a variety of pseudonyms over the past forty years. Some kind of disaster has occurred, the revolution has long since turned into a nightmare, yet people resist as best they can--by telling stories to each other, which are stories about each other. Mevlido's Dreams provides a new pathway into Volodine's labyrinth, which for all the horrors it recounts is always cast in stylishly crafted prose." --David Bellos, Princeton University "Translator Stamm does an admirable job of rendering Volodine's serpentine prose in English, and the noirish, surrealist story turns into an unlikely romp as it riffs on the absurdity of 20th-century political institutions and pop culture."-- Publishers Weekly " Mevlido's Dreams is highly readable."-- The Times Literary Supplement " Mevlido's Dreams is profoundly interesting and compelling, with a unique linguistic cadence that Gina Stamm has diligently endeavored to render into English through translation of Volodine's French that isn't quite French. It's a highbrow literature whose brilliance is hard to decipher or argue. But it's also absolutely entertaining in its weirdness.

"-- World Literature Today " Mevlido's Dreams works as both a political fable and a séance for the lost, a way of keeping consciousness flickering in the dark. Highly recommended." -- Biblioklept.