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Introducing
A SELFISH MAN
Short Prose by John O'Loughlin
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below the following brief Centretruths
editorial:–
Another volume
of short prose in which a number of John O'Loughlin's principal philosophical themes are recycled in literary guise for the
benefit
of a wider understanding, A Selfish Man begins with the title
piece, a
first-person narrative by an advocate of spiritual selfishness, and
winds its
way through fifteen other examples of his art in this field,
culminating in a
section of interior monologues which features twelve different thinkers
who
successively elaborate on their likes and dislikes from a similar
ideological
standpoint, thereby establishing a unity of mind which transcends their
phenomenal
differences. In between these two
extremes, there are varying amounts of unity and disunity between the
characters, but all are caught in the throes of a vigorous
philosophical
debate. For here, as in other kindred
works by this author, action is subordinate to thought, whether we are
dealing
with a drive to the cinema, a couple watching television, reflections
on a soapbox orator, a clandestine affair, or the vicissitudes of a
revolutionary politician. Sometimes the
characters have names, sometimes not.
Sometimes they are a fairly transparent projection of Mr O'Loughlin himself, at other times a degree of
fictional
objectivity has gone into their fashioning.
Whatever the case, A Selfish Man, dating from 1983,
bears ample
witness to a great philosopher-artist's search for literary perfection
through
thought. – A Centretruths Editorial
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