08 — On The Self-Reflexive Page

08 — On The Self-Reflexive Page

11 December 2021 — 20 February 2022

Edited by Louis Lüthi, On The Self-Reflexive Page is an attempt to compile a typology of nonverbal elements — or transitional spaces between image and scripture — in novels, short stories, and essays. The exhibition is arranged in 6 chapters: Black Pages, Blank Pages, Drawing Pages, Photography Pages, Text Pages, and Document Pages. Each chapter displays a selection of books which are available for perusal.
Coinciding with this exhibition, the book On The Self-Reflexive Page II has been published by Roma Publications. A previous version was published in 2010. For this new edition, Lüthi has significantly expanded and revised the original material.

— Kōbō Abe, Hako otoko (Tokyo: Shinchosha, 2005)
— Kathy Acker, Blood and Guts in High School (London: Penguin, 2017)
— Kathy Acker, Empire of the Senseless (New York: Grove Press, 1988)
— Paul Auster, Oracle Night (London: Faber and Faber, 2004)
— John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse (New York: Anchor Books, 1988)
— Donald Barthelme, Forty Stories (London: Penguin, 2005)
— Samuel Beckett, Watt (London: Faber and Faber, 2009)
— Walter Benjamin, Das Passagen-Werk (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1991)
— Brian Blanchfield, Proxies (New York: Nightboat, 2016)
— André Breton, Nadja (Paris: Gallimard, 1964)
— Christine Brooke-Rose, Next (Manchester: Carcanet, 1998)
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Three Trapped Tigers (Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive, 1971)
— Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark (Amsterdam: Athenaeum—Polak & Van Gennep, 2007)
— Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictée (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001)
— Julio Cortázar and Carol Dunlop, Los autonautas de la cosmopista (Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 2016)
— Douglas Coupland, JPod (London: Bloomsbury, 2006)
— Douglas Coupland, Microserfs (New York: HarperCollins, 1995)
— Evan Dara, The Easy Chain (New York: Aurora, 2008)
— Guy Davenport, Twelve Stories (New York: Counterpoint, 1997)
— Macedonio Fernández, Museo de la Novela de la Eterna (Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra, 2010)
— Max Frisch, Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1979)
— William Gaddis, J R (Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive, 2012)
— William H. Gass, The Tunnel (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995)
— William H. Gass, Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife (Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive, 1989)
— Madeline Gins, Word Rain, or A Discursive Introduction to the Intimate Philosophical Investigations of G,R,E,T,A, G,A,R,B,O, It Says (New York: Grossman, 1969)
— Robert Glück, Jack the Modernist (New York: Gay Presses of New York, 1985)
— Alasdair Gray 1982, Janine (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2003)
— Susan Howe, The Midnight (New York: New Directions, 2003)
— Susan Howe, Pierce-Arrow (New York: New Directions, 1999)
— B. S. Johnson, Omnibus (London: Picador, 2004)
— B. S. Johnson, Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (New York: New Directions, 1986)
— Bhanu Kapil, Schizophrene (Callicoon, NY: Nightboat, 2011)
— Alexander Kluge, Der Luftangriff auf Halberstadt am 8. April 1945 (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2008)
— László Krasznahorkai, The Melancholy of Resistance (New York: New Directions: 2000)
— László Krasznahorkai, War and War (New York: New Directions: 2006)
— Aaron Kunin, The Mandarin (Albany, NY: Fence Books, 2008)
— J. M. G. Le Clézio, The Interrogation (London: Penguin, 1970)
— Tan Lin, Insomnia and the Aunt (Chicago: Kenning Editions, 2011)
— Gordon Lish, Arcade, or How to Write a Novel (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1998)
— avier Marías, Dark Back of Time (New York: New Directions, 2001)
— Harry Mathews, The Conversions (Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive, 1997)
— Harry Mathews, Tlooth (Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive, 1998)
— Lorrie Moore, The Collected Stories (London: Faber and Faber, 2008)
— Michael Ondaatje, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (New York: Vintage, 2008)
— Georges Perec, Espèces d’espaces (Paris: Editions Galilée, 1974)
— Georges Perec, Je me souviens (Paris: Hachette, 1978)
— Georges Perec, W ou le souvenir d’enfance (Paris: Denoël, 1975)
— Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper (London: Bloomsbury, 2006)
— Koos Prinsloo, Die hemel help ons (Amsterdam: Amber, 1991)
— Georges Rodenbach, Bruges-la-Morte (Paris: Flammarion, 1998)
— Raymond Roussel, New Impresssions of Africa (London: Atlas Press, 2004)
— Raymond Roussel, Nouvelles Impressions d’Afrique (Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1963)
— Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002)
— W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2003)
— W. G. Sebald, Die Ringe des Saturn (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1997)
— Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator (New York: HarperCollins, 2001)
— Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (New York: Modern Library, 1940)
— Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (London: MacDonald, 1949)
— Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (London: Collins, 1955)
— Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (New York: Airmont, 1967)
— Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983)
— Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, Mr. Rouse Builds His House (London: Tate, 2013)
— Lynne Tillman, Men and Apparitions (New York: Soft Skull, 2018)
— Peter Weiss, Der Schatten des Körpers des Kutschers (Suhrkamp: Frankfurt am Main, 2016)
— Eugene Wildman, Montezuma’s Ball (Chicago: Swallow Press, 1970)
— Monique Wittig and Sande Zeig, Lesbian Peoples: Materials for a Dictionary (London: Virago, 1980)