They offer windows onto his creative method as a self-described “visual writer” who often writes through a dialectic of image and text. That word-storm set the volume’s tone, a series of miniature illustrations and notes serving to illuminate Pamuk’s writing process. In the first illustration, words and letters were raining down from the sky in an arresting manner. (The English version, Memories of Distant Mountains, won’t appear for another year or two.) His latest novel Nights of Plague (2022) was soon to be released in the United States in English translation, but Pamuk had already started on his next novel, with the working title The Card Players - yes, he was familiar with the eponymous five-painting Cézanne series.Īs we talked, Pamuk placed a sheaf of colorful manuscript pages before me. Last August, Pamuk and I had dinner there and discussed everything from politics (could Erdoğan survive the May 2023 elections?) to the author’s illustrated notebooks, selections from which were recently published in Turkish and French. DURING THE LONG summer days in Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk devotes himself to intensive writing on Büyükada, an island in the Sea of Marmara, and in the evenings, he meets with visitors.
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