Antoine Volodine is the primary pseudonym of a French-Russian writer of many books. The meditative, postapocalyptic noir Mevlido’s Dreams, translated by Gina M. Stamm, is an urgent communiqué from a far-future reality of irreversible environmental damage and civilizational collapse that asks what it means to love and care for others at the end of the world. Here, Stamm is joined in conversation with Joshua Armstrong about translating this key work in Volodine’s post-exotic fictional universe.


Gina M. Stamm is assistant professor of French at the University of Alabama.

Joshua Armstrong is associate professor of French at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.



Mevlido’s Dreams: A Post-Exotic Novel is available from University of Minnesota Press.

“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

“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. 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

Translating the post-exotic writer Antoine Volodine

Uma conversa de meia hora sobre Samuel Beckett, que foi um dramaturgo, romancista, crítico e poeta irlandês, nascido em 1906 em Dublin e falecido em 1989 em Paris, que foi galardoado com o Prémio Nobel de Literatura de 1969. Beckett foi um autor de expressão inglesa e francesa, tendo muitas das suas obras sido escritas numa língua e traduzidas para a outra por ele próprio.

Autores Nobel

Samuel Beckett

Lotus 38.8FM S03E12 - Beckett, YOTA & Johan Agebjörn, LAU, STARwave, Tommy Countach & More!

Welcome to Lotus 38.8 FM, & Happy #SynthWaveSunday to all! We've got a great line up of a variety of groovy synth tracks today. So please sit back, relax, & enjoy! (^.^)

1) KMX VII - Lost in Orbit ~Instrumental~
2) Tommy Countach - 10,000 Hours
3) Cassetter - Stalker ~Instrumental~
4) Bending Grid - The Beast That Follows
5) STARwave - Warrior
6) Woren - Glow ~Instrumental~
7) YOTA & Johan Agebjörn ft. Betamaxx - Did You Lose Your Mind?
8) Beckett - City Skyline ~Instrumental~
9) The Motion Epic - Robbie Hart 
10) LAU - The Storm
11) SYNTRONIX - Just To Be With You ~Instrumental~
12) Arcade Memories - Edge of Oblivion
13) Sunset Wave - Like Yesterday
14) Of What Remains - What They Say

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Lotus 38.8FM S03E12 - Beckett, YOTA & Johan Agebjörn, LAU, STARwave, Tommy Countach & More!

Lotus 38.8FM S03E13 - LAU, Dimi Kaye, YOTA & Johan Agebjörn, Lifelong Corporation, & More!

Welcome to Lotus 38.8 FM, & Happy #SynthWaveSunday to all! We've got a great line up of a variety of groovy synth tracks today. So please sit back, relax, & enjoy! (^.^)

1) Memory Design & Bending Grid - More Alive Than Ever Before
2) Dimi Kaye - SUPERBODY ~Instrumental~
3) Tommy Countach - Cascades
4) XIII Nights - Ocean Alley ~Instrumental~
5) Lifelong Corporation - Lost in the Echo
6) LAU - Physical Attraction
7) Beckett - Surappu Fanku ~Instrumental~
8) Sunset Wave - Wonderland
9) Michael Angelaux - Crystal Eyes
10) YOTA & Johan Agebjörn - Our Highs
11) Castell - Tomorrow
12) DREAMPOCKET - Outrun the Night
13) Rain - Angels ~Instrumental~
14) Spaceman 1981 & Torry Kudryavaya - Don´t Break My Heart

Thanks for listening, please be kind to one another, and in the meantime please take care! (^.^)

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Lotus 38.8FM S03E13 - LAU, Dimi Kaye, YOTA & Johan Agebjörn, Lifelong Corporation, & More!

Lotus 38.8FM S03E14 - Beckett ft. Luca Ricardo, Lifelong Corporation, Strawberry Station, Laura Dre, & More!

Welcome to Lotus 38.8 FM, & Happy #SynthWaveSunday to all! We've got a great line up of a variety of groovy synth tracks today. So please sit back, relax, & enjoy! (^.^)

1) AC '83 - Groove in the Moonlight
2) Neon Vice 83 ft. Pock - I Find You ~Instrumental~
3) Michael Angelaux - Love Is Not To Blame
4) Beckett ft. Luca Ricardo - Star Pulse ~Instrumental~
5) Just Scott ft. Shred Kreuger - Tonight She Comes
6) Lifelong Corporation - Mom ~Instrumental~
7) Ferrari Kid ft. Argerax - Call of the Devil
8) Laura Dre - L1THIUM ~Instrumental~
9) XIII Nights - Like Tears In Rain
10) Synth Fellow Hawk - Bot Killer ~Instrumental~
11) Bending Grid & Jolie - Predator In Stilettos
12) James Peden ft. Spaceman 1981 - Masterpiece
13) Red Industrie - Forward
14) Strawberry Station & Mr. Wax - Behind the Sun ~Instrumental~

Thanks for listening, please be kind to one another, and in the meantime please take care! (^.^)

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Lotus 38.8FM S03E14 - Beckett, Lifelong Corporation, Strawberry Station, Laura Dre, & More!

Lotus 38.8FM S03E17 - Bentley Jones, Kidburn, Sunglasses Kid, Beckett, Phaserland & More!

Welcome to Lotus 38.8 FM, & Happy #SynthWaveSunday to all! We've got a great line up of a variety of groovy synth tracks today. So please sit back, relax, & enjoy! (^.^)

1) Sung - Menace ~Instrumental~
2) Dark Matter Void - Dreaming of Another World ~Instrumental~
3) Michael Angelaux - Dance in the Rain
4) Cassetter & Amy Wallace - Ashes Rise
5) Tenodi Boris - My Memory
6) Splash '96 - hot_packets ~Instrumental~
7) Dani Tamayo - I Believe in You ~Instrumental~
8) Sunglasses Kid - Nights in LA ~Instrumental~
9) Kidburn - Dangerous Times 
10) Bentley Jones - Passenger (The Corrective Experience)
11) Phaserland - Dancing With the End ~Instrumental~
12) DanSTAR ft. Ellie B - Neverending Story
13) Beckett - Just Hold On (Erika)
14) Le Groupe Fantastique - Dance Like Nobody's Watching

Thanks for listening, please be kind to one another, and in the meantime please take care! (^.^)

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Lotus 38.8FM S03E17 - Bentley Jones, Kidburn, Sunglasses Kid, Beckett, Phaserland & More!

Lotus 38.8FM S03E18 - Beckett, eLxAr, Sunset Wave, Crystal Synth, AC83, XIII Nights & More!

Welcome to Lotus 38.8 FM, & Happy #SynthWaveSunday to all! We've got a great line up of a variety of groovy synth tracks today. So please sit back, relax, & enjoy! (^.^)

1) Crystal Synth - Midnight Sun
2) The San Junipero Experience - (I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight (Cover)
3) eLxAr - Framing
4) Beckett - Zapp My Heart
5) Sunset Wave - Dandelion
6) Le Cast & Bunny X ft. Jenny Bates - Rearview Mirror
7) Leo Golo - Deciduous
8) StarDawn - All Of Us
9) AC83' - Cruel Summer (Cover)
10) Out Runner - Interstellar Pathways
11) Kal White - Stayin' Up
12) Bending Grid & Jolie - Neon Heat
13) XIII Nights - Straight Up
14) Splash '96 - Crush on a Speedrunner

Thanks for listening, please be kind to one another, and in the meantime please take care! (^.^)

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Lotus 38.8FM S03E18 - Beckett, eLxAr, Sunset Wave, Crystal Synth, AC83, XIII Nights & More!

"A late evening in the future.

Krapp's den.

Front centre a small table, the two drawers of which open towards audience.

Sitting at the table, facing front, i.e. across from the drawers, a wearish old man: Krapp

Rusty black narrow trousers too short for him. Rust black sleevless waistcoat, four capaciou pockets. Heavy silver watch and chain. Grimy white shirt open at neck, no 
collar. Surprising pair of dirty white boots, size ten at least, very narrow and pointed.

White face. Purple nose. Disordered grey hair. Unshaven.

very near-sighted (but unspectacled). Hard of hearing.

Cracked voice. Distinctive intonation.

Laborious walk.

On the table a tape-recorder with microphone and a number of cardboard boxes containing reels of recorded tapes."

Samuel Beckett, Krapps Last Tape.

Fieldrecordings made at Zebrastraat in Gent on February 2025 at about 2pm.

Pic of Samuel Beckett by John Haines.

Caution: Listen with headphones.

Master Of Inertia

Tuesday (It Must Be)

Atelier Mini-Series YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSKk9TL2TheyuTwqA-aZJTxQD81vCgUks

“This space between French and English is, for me, a perpetual torment…”

Philosopher Alain Badiou reflects on Beckett — and on the strange torment of thinking and speaking across languages.

In this halF unusuaL piece, his voice becomes a sonic poem: shattered, dissolved, and reassembled through GRM Tools Atelier.

A tribute to Musique Concrète, to the friction of thought and sound, and to an uncertain space between sameness and otherness.

— created in GRM Tools Atelier

More experiments in sound, language, and philosophy coming soon.

Watch the whole lecture - Alain Badiou. Theater, Poetry and Philosophy. 2003 - at https://youtu.be/p6SmRlSqFrM?si=V8XQwU_yX5vcxJ2Y

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DedPx1 uses A.I. to craft sound & images, driven by a deep fascination for pop culture. Empowered by machines, he create and shares his passion in a world where the line between human creation and computer generation is blurred.

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