Giorgio di chirico wikipedia

1929 book by Giorgio De Chirico

Hebdomeros is a 1929 book (referred to by some as a novel) by Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico. Chirico did not produce any other long-form writing.

The book is narrated in the third person and loosely concerns the movement of a man, Hebdomeros, westward.^[1] Writing in The Kenyon Review, Alan Burns referred to the text as a "surrealist dream novel".^[2]

Context and publication

At the beginning of his career, Chirico produced works in a style he developed with his fellow Italian painter Carlo Carrà.

They referred to the style as pittura metafisica or metaphysical art.^[3] In the early 1920s, the French poet and writer André Breton (around whom the surrealist movement organized itself) noticed and became enthralled by a "metaphysical" painting of Chirico's at the gallery of Paul Guillaume.^[4] Due to admiration from Breton and other surrealists, Chirico became an accepted member of their