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Introducing
CHANGING WORLDS
Long Prose by
John
O’Loughlin
Which can be
previewed via
the link below the following Centretruths
editorial:–
John O’Loughlin’s
first novel, written during the summer of
1976, is largely an autobiographical account of three days in the life
of a
clerk-turning-writer by name of Michael Savage, whose disillusionment
with the drudgery
of office work has led him to quit his clerical job in London's West
End in
order to dedicate himself to a literary career ... come what may. In this respect Savage is a sort of Henry
Miller, who doesn't believe in doing things by half-measures and
consequently,
to him, there is no sense in remaining a clerk when one has an
imperative
desire to become a writer and thus effectively 'change worlds',
abandoning his
former psychology, with its dilettantish self-doubts, for one more
focused on
literature. Therefore for him it is a
make-or-break situation, all the more poignant for its
unfolding against a background of indifference or hostility from
colleagues and
relatives alike! Of all Mr O’Loughlin’s novels, Changing Worlds is
by far the
most subjective, with long passages of interior monologue which often
overlap,
to ironic effect, with conversational or observational settings; though
he has
taken extra care to differentiate reflection from conversation by
utilizing
single quotes in the one context and double quotes in the other – a
stratagem
which, though unorthodox, has probably done more than anything to
condition his
preference, contrary to contemporary literary norms, for double quotes
in
relation to conversational passages virtually right the way through his
subsequent fictional oeuvre.
However that may be, it was probably the degree of this novel's
subjectivity, combined with its revolutionary technique, that alienated
most
publishers (apart from 'vanity press' ones, who were splendidly if
predictably
objective) when he attempted to have it published in London back in the
late
1970s, and to this day he is proud of the fact that he was able to
subvert
literary objectivity to such a radical extent that ... the result is
more
philosophic than prosodic, thus heralding his true destiny in the more
unequivocally philosophical works to come! – A Centretruths
Editorial
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