Ara H. Merjian
ARA H. MERJIAN is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at New York University, where he is an affiliate of the Institute of Fine Arts and the Department of Art History, as well as Director of Undergraduate Studies and Acting Chair. He the author of Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City: Nietzsche, Paris, Modernism (Yale University Press, My 2014), and Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art and Neocapitalism, 1960-75 (University of Chicago Press, 2019)
“Homeric Dawns”
Giorgio de Chirico’s Metaphysical Interior (with Small Factory)
By Ara H. Merjian
In the proverbial shadow of Giorgio de Chirico’s prominent painting, Metaphysical Interior (with Large Building) (1916) lurks a counterpart of smaller dimensions and more humble repute: the Metaphysical Interior (with Small Factory).
![Giorgio de Chirico,<em> Interno metafisico (con piccolo officina) </em>[Metaphysical Interior (with Small Factory)], 1917. Oil on canvas, 18.1 × 14.2 inches. Private Collection. © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome.](https://brooklynrail-web.imgix.net/article_image/image/18493/Strand-web1.jpg?w=200&q=80&fit=max)
Giorgio de Chirico’s ‘Other’ Novel: An Excerpt from Monsieur Dudron
translated from the Italian by Ara H. MerjianAt once meandering tale, aesthetic treatise, and autobiography à cle, the book marked both a departure from, and a culmination of, de Chirico’s writings since the 1910s, finding him venture for the first time into experimental narrative prose.
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