A Memoir of the Future is described as a novel in three books: ‘The Dream’, ‘The Past Presented’, and ‘The Dawn of Oblivion’. There is a fourth book, ‘A Key’. The first two were printed in Brazil in 1975 and 1977, the last two by the Clunie Press in 1979 and 1981. All four books are now presented in one volume for the first time by Karnac. Bion himself describes his work as ‘a fictional account of psychoanalysis including an artificially constructed dream’. Francesca Bion, in Bion in New York and Sao Paulo (1980),