Elias Canetti visited Morocco for three weeks in 1954 and wrote a short book of fragmented observations — encounters with blind men, storytellers, a Jewish businessman, a camel being slaughtered, a bundle of rags from which a voice came. It is not a guidebook and it says almost nothing practical, but it captures something true about the strangeness and density of North African city life that longer books miss.
Although set principally in Marrakesh, the book applies equally to Fez and to the medina experience in general. Canetti won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981; this is his slimmest and most accessible book. It takes three hours to read and rewards rereading after you have walked the medina yourself. The encounter with the bundle of rags in the final pages is one of the most affecting passages in travel literature.