"The Most High" (1948) - the largest and at the same time the most mysterious work of one of the largest thinkers of the twentieth century Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) In this , The Last , In the novel (he then gave up a large form for the sake of more concise speculative stories), critics tend to see a variety of philosophical topics (the end of history and the victory of absolute knowledge). The Death of God , Dasein's existential concern, death as a guarantor of the literary word) and literary paradigms (political pamphlet, apocalyptic dystopia , Kafkaian parable), But all these constructions, which continue to this day, are obviously only reducible to the conceptual constructions of the text. Unexpected urgency of the novel , Written in the Wake of Shock , [CM World War II , This is a fact ,. that the action in it unfolds against the background of social cataclysms , Provoked in a perfectly stable totalitarian state by a monstrous epidemic What we would call a pandemic today