The founder of the metaphysical school of painting, Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978).
“The Hebdomeros” (1929) — a novel-autobiography, but an autobiography that has nothing in common with a life story told as a chronological sequence of circumstances of the narrator’s life.
A wide romantic composition, inspired in large part by the philosophy of F. Nietzsche and A. Schopenhauer (“Thus Spoke Zarathustra”—“Thus Spoke the Hebdomeros”...), describes a life journey like a dream within a dream, the eternal return, and nostalgia. Immortality for Chirico, as Eternity for Nietzsche, is both a strategy and the outcome of the eternal return.