Memories of the mountains in the distance.

"I have to write about my joy of covering a drawing with text. Between the ages of 7 and 22, I thought I would be a painter. At 22, the painter in me died, and I started writing novels. In 2008, I went into a shop and came out with two large bags full of pencils and brushes; the painter in me wasn't dead."

For more than ten years, Orhan Pamuk has been writing and drawing in his notebooks every day. He records the day's events, notes his thoughts on current events, questions the construction of his books, and dialogues with the characters in his novels. Weeks, months, and years pass, and the author continually picks up, completes, and sketches the pages that remain empty, giving birth to an exceptionally rich collection where texts and drawings intermingle.
For the first time, the writer who dreamed of becoming a painter reveals his notebooks through a personal selection made from several thousand pages.