To walk alone in the crowd / Antonio Muñoz Molina ; translated by Guillermo Bleichmar.

Originally published in Spain in 2018 as 'Un andar solitario entre la gente' by Editorial Planeta.

De Quincey, Baudelaire, Poe, Joyce, Walter Benjamin, Melville, Lorca, Whitman... Antonio Munoz Molina emulates these classical inspirations, following their peregrinations as well as telling their stories, in a book that is part memoir, part novel, part chronicle of urban wandering. A master collagist himself, Molina assembles overheard conversations, subway ads, commercials blazing away on public screens, snatches from books packed into bags, mundane anxieties, and the true flash of insight, into a poem of contemporary life: an invitation to be carried along by the sheer energy of the digital metropolis.

Translated from the Spanish.