The latest instalment of a larger work in progress, Memorias de Ficción by César Antonio Molina, is a journey through places and readings from Naples to Drina, visiting Saint Petersburg, Beijing, Prague, Buenos Aires, New York and Tangier along the way and guided by great names of Art and Literature.

In the hills of Posillipo, near Naples, the Romans built their holiday villas. The largest of these was called Pausilypon, a place to ease the pain. This volume is a tour through places that have the capacity to fuse with the mind and heart of the traveller, talking to him and becoming his artistic, human and spiritual support. From Naples to Drina, visiting the Palermo of The Leopard, the St Petersburg of Ajmatova, or Joyce’s Trieste; Beijing, London, Berlin, Prague, Buenos Aires, New York, Tangier; cities that, seen through the lens of great names of literature and art, reveal things that not everyone can see. A heartfelt and passionate invitation to accompany the author on his travels, his readings and artistic contemplation, in the style of great genre transcending works such as Danube by Magris.