Giorgio de Chirico, The Novelist

Giorgio de Chirico, The Novelist

Reading this revised translation of the artist’s novel, Hebdomeros, feels distinctly hallucinogenic This revised translation of Giorgio de Chirico’s famous if confounding 1929 novel reveals the artist’s first and only book-length project to be an essential foil to his well-known metaphysical paintings – not merely a transposition of de Chirico’s visual forms into language, but a complementary project of untimely modernism unto itself. This untim…