Le Très-Haut
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Le Très-Haut is a philosophical novel by Maurice Blanchot that explores themes of power, transcendence, and the limits of human experience through an enigmatic, introspective narrative.
All labels observed (1)
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| Le Très-Haut canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Le Très-Haut Context triple: [Maurice Blanchot, wrote, Le Très-Haut]
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A.
De Opificio Dei
De Opificio Dei is an early Christian theological treatise by Lactantius that reflects on the creation of the world and the nature of God through philosophical argument.
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B.
The Divine Milieu
The Divine Milieu is a seminal spiritual and philosophical work by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin that explores the presence of God in the evolving cosmos and everyday human experience.
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C.
Living with the Gods
Living with the Gods is a cultural history book (and related BBC radio series) by Neil MacGregor that explores how religious beliefs and rituals have shaped human societies across time and place.
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D.
La Recherche de l’absolu
La Recherche de l’absolu is a novel by Honoré de Balzac that explores obsession, alchemy, and the destructive pursuit of scientific perfection within a bourgeois family.
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E.
The Marrow of Sacred Divinity
The Marrow of Sacred Divinity is a classic 17th-century Reformed theological work that systematically presents Calvinist doctrine in a concise, catechetical form.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Le Très-Haut Target entity description: Le Très-Haut is a philosophical novel by Maurice Blanchot that explores themes of power, transcendence, and the limits of human experience through an enigmatic, introspective narrative.
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A.
De Opificio Dei
De Opificio Dei is an early Christian theological treatise by Lactantius that reflects on the creation of the world and the nature of God through philosophical argument.
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B.
The Divine Milieu
The Divine Milieu is a seminal spiritual and philosophical work by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin that explores the presence of God in the evolving cosmos and everyday human experience.
-
C.
Living with the Gods
Living with the Gods is a cultural history book (and related BBC radio series) by Neil MacGregor that explores how religious beliefs and rituals have shaped human societies across time and place.
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D.
La Recherche de l’absolu
La Recherche de l’absolu is a novel by Honoré de Balzac that explores obsession, alchemy, and the destructive pursuit of scientific perfection within a bourgeois family.
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E.
The Marrow of Sacred Divinity
The Marrow of Sacred Divinity is a classic 17th-century Reformed theological work that systematically presents Calvinist doctrine in a concise, catechetical form.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | philosophical novel ⓘ |
| author | Maurice Blanchot ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
alienation
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authority ⓘ language and silence ⓘ sovereignty ⓘ subjectivity ⓘ transcendent experience ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
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philosophical fiction ⓘ |
| hasAudience |
readers of philosophical literature
ⓘ
scholars of Maurice Blanchot ⓘ |
| hasCentralMotif |
bureaucratic or institutional power
ⓘ
the inaccessible absolute ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose fiction ⓘ |
| hasLanguageStyle |
allusive
ⓘ
dense ⓘ fragmentary ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryMovement |
French modernism
ⓘ
postwar French literature ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeMode | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| hasPhilosophicalCurrent |
existentialism
ⓘ
phenomenology ⓘ |
| hasPhilosophicalInfluence |
Friedrich Nietzsche
ⓘ
Martin Heidegger ⓘ |
| hasPhilosophicalTheme |
ethical responsibility under power
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experience of the limit ⓘ impossibility of full presence ⓘ relation between self and the absolute ⓘ |
| hasReception | considered a challenging, difficult text ⓘ |
| hasSetting | unspecified modern European environment ⓘ |
| hasTone |
ambiguous
ⓘ
meditative ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
limits of human experience
ⓘ
power ⓘ transcendence ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
enigmatic
ⓘ
introspective ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Aminadab
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L’Arrêt de mort ⓘ Thomas l’Obscur ⓘ |
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