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Introducing
CHANGING WORLDS
An ebook novel 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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