Hebdomeros with Monseiur Dudron's Adventure and Other Metaphysical Writings - Softcover
The artist Giorgio de Chirico's novel, Hebdomeros is a dream-like book of situations and landscapes reminiscent of his paintings. In his introduction John Ashbery calls the book “the finest work of Surrealist fiction,” noting that de Chirico “invented for the occasion a new style and a new kind of novel... his long run-on sentences, stitched together with semi-colons, allow a cinematic freedom of narration... his language, like his painting, is invisible: a transparent but dense medium containing objects that are more real than reality.” Hebdomeros is accompanied by an appendix of previously untranslated or uncollected writings, including M. Dudron's Adventure, a second, fragmentary novel translated by John Ashbery.
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In his introduction, Ashbery hails the famed painter de Chirico's only novel as "the finest work of Surrealist fiction."
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- PublisherExact Change
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1878972065
- ISBN 13 9781878972064
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages258
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Hebdomeros with Monseiur Dudron's Adventure and Other Metaphysical Writings
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: used. One of the most revered and acclaimed products of Surrealism, de Chirico's sole novel provides a uniquely literary analogue to his painterly scenariosThe artist Giorgio de Chirico's novel, Hebdomeros is a dream-like book of situations and landscapes reminiscent of his paintings. In his introduction John Ashbery calls the book the finest work of Surrealist fiction, noting that de Chirico invented for the occasion a new style and a new kind of novel . his long run-on sentences, stitched together with semi-colons, allow a cinematic freedom of narration . his language, like his painting, is invisible: a transparent but dense medium containing objects that are more real than reality. Hebdomeros is accompanied by an appendix of previously untranslated or uncollected writings, including M. Dudron's Adventure, a second, fragmentary novel translated by John Ashbery. Seller Inventory # SONG1878972065
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