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RILAS 早稲田大学総合人文科学研究センター研究誌

WASEDA RILAS JOURNAL形而上NO.学的3室(2015.内の円10)環――ジョルジョ・デ・キリコと『八十日間世界一周』――形而上学的室内の円環──ジョルジョ・デ・キリコと『八十日間世界一周』──長尾天The Circle in the Metaphysical Interior:Giorgio de Chirico and Around the World in Eighty DaysTakashi NAGAOAbstractItalian painter Giorgio de Chirico (1888 - 1978), known for his“metaphysical painting,”referred toFrench novelist Jules Verne (1828 - 1905) in his essay“Concerning metaphysical art”(1919). The currentwork aims to examine the reason De Chirico connected his metaphysical art theory to Verne’s work, particularlyAround the World in Eighty Days (1873).The steam locomotives that De Chirico repeatedly used in his paintings are said to be inspired by thosein the illustrations appearing in Around the World in Eighty Days. This novel is, however, not a simple imagesource for De Chirico, because Around the World in Eighty Days allegorizes the philosophy of Schopenhauerand Nietzsche, themselves sources of the most important theoretical bases of De Chirico’s metaphysicalpainting.According to Schopenhauer, the world recognized by humans is merely a representation in the humanbrain. De Chirico expressed this philosophical view of the world as images of the“metaphysical interior.”Around the World in Eighty Days can be considered a story of travel in this metaphysical interior, namely, inthe brain. In this sense, this story can be an allegory of Schopenhauer’s“world as representation.”Additionally,the hero of Around the World in Eighty Days, Mr. Phileas Fogg, can be seen as an allegoricalembodiment of Nietzsche’s“eternal return,”because he is literally in the words of Nietzsche,“the soulfleeing from itself, which overtaketh itself in the widest circuit.”The above reasons for De Chirico’s reference to Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days are discussedin depth in this work. Further, the allegory of the circle in the metaphysical interior will be examined bypresenting examples of De Chirico’s work that bear a connection to Verne’s Around the World in EightyDays. For De Chirico, this story is an allegory of the circle in the metaphysical interior. A perfect exampleis De Chirico’s Evangelical Still Life I, which depicts a biscuit representing the“circle”in the“metaphysicalinterior.”The story of Around the World in Eighty Days is connected to such an image.はじめにジュール・ヴェルヌ(1828-1905)のよく知られた小説『八十日間世界一周』(1873) (1)は謎の英国紳士フィリアス・フォッグ氏が召使のフランス人ジャン・パスパルトゥーと共に八十日間で世界を一周して戻って来ることができるかという賭けに挑む物語である。ロンドンを出発したフォッグ氏は、パスパルトゥーと共に様々な冒険を経ながら、世界を一周してロンドンに帰還し、最終的に賭けに勝利する。「形而上絵画pittura metafisica」と呼ばれる奇妙201