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Introducing
A SELFISH MAN
An ebook of short prose by John O’Loughlin
Which can be previewed via the link
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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