Paul Fulcher

I am a story destroyer, I am the typical story destroyer.

In my work, at the very first sign of a story taking form, or if I catch sight of even a trace of a story, rising somewhere in the distance behind a mound of prose, I shoot it down.

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I am a story destroyer, I am the typical story destroyer.

In my work, at the very first sign of a story taking form, or if I catch sight of even a trace of a story, rising somewhere in the distance behind a mound of prose, I shoot it down.

The same is true of sentences - I almost want to annihilate on advance whole sentences that even possibly could develop.

If you scrutinise a white wall, you realise it isn't white at all, it isn't bare.

If you are a long time alone, if you have accustomed yourself to solitude, are schooled in solitude, you discover more and more everywhere, where for the normal person there is nothing

In the wall you discover cracks, little chinks, bumps, bugs. There is tremendous activity on the walls.

Really, the wall and the book page are perfectly alike.

Why darkness?

Why always the same total darkness on my books?

In short: on my books everything is artificial - which means all figures, events, incidents play out on a stage, and the stage is totally dark ...

In darkness everything becomes clear.

We publish contemporary fiction that challenges existing ideas and breathes new life into the novel form. Our aim is to make available to English-speaking readers some of the most innovative writers that speak to our shared culture in new and compelling ways, from Europe and beyond.

Antonio Lolli was an itinerant 18th-century composer who lived between Scandinavia, England, Russia and Italy. Transcending traditional, national “schools”, Lolli worked from the ethic that artistic thought, and the means through which it could express itself, should be the basis of art, rather than following the predetermined rules of a school.