Ich könnte fortgehen / Roman by Manuel Boden

Publisher: Self-published, Germany, 2019 / 2021
Format: Softcover, thread sewn
Language: German
Edition: Expanded Edition 2021 (Edition of 25)
Pages: 244

Ich könnte fortgehen is an artist book by Manuel Boden constructed entirely from chance encounters. Over many years, Boden collected lost book pages found in public spaces and photographed each page at the exact location where it was discovered. These fragments are then reinserted into an otherwise blank book and reordered according to their original pagination, forming a disrupted yet internally coherent narrative. The title, drawn from a single recovered sentence, suggests departure, absence, and potential movement. Operating between photography, archival practice, and literary chance, the book reads as a quiet meditation on loss, authorship, and the fragile continuity of texts once separated from their origins.