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Hebdomeros, with Monsieur Dudron's Adventure and Other Metaphysical Writings

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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 o f 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.

Language: English

Pages: 280

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Exact Change

Release: May 10, 1992

ISBN: 1878972065

ISBN 13: 9781878972064

Hebdomeros, with Monsieur Dudron's Adventure and Other Metaphysical Writings

4/5 ( ratings)

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 o f 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.

Language: English

Pages: 280

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Exact Change

Release: May 10, 1992

ISBN: 1878972065

ISBN 13: 9781878972064

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