Landscapes Glimpsed in a Dream

In the Western world, the critical discussion of creativity has always tended to separate written pages from painted ones. There are, of course, exceptions: comics and graphic novels, whose status has long been dubious at best, have only recently been welcomed into the athenaeum of fine art. In his collection of Moleskine notebooks, now part of an exhibition at the Masone Labyrinth, Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk spontaneously and impetuously combines his literary leanings with an innate but long-neglected artistic talent. But it would be wrong to consider these “postcard’'s from around the world” as merely a footnote to his literary opus: they are a freer, unclassifiable form of expression in which writing and landscapes are inextricably intertwined, both documenting and reflecting a life.