Outer Dark
E309667
Outer Dark is a bleak and haunting early novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a woman and her brother through a nightmarish rural American landscape after the abandonment of their incestuous child.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Outer Dark canonical | 3 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Cormac McCarthy ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
alienation
ⓘ
existential despair ⓘ guilt ⓘ moral decay ⓘ religious imagery ⓘ retribution ⓘ sin ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| containsBiblicalAllusions | true ⓘ |
| containsViolence | true ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | noted for its bleakness and moral intensity ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
cosmic indifference
ⓘ
damnation ⓘ fate ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| followedBy | Child of God ⓘ |
| genre |
Gothic fiction
ⓘ
Southern Gothic ⓘ dark fiction ⓘ |
| hasAntagonistGroup | mysterious trio of men ⓘ |
| hasIncestTheme | true ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter |
Culla Holme
ⓘ
Rinthy Holme ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Southern literature ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| motif |
blindness
ⓘ
darkness ⓘ journey ⓘ pursuit ⓘ the wilderness ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| narrativeTone |
bleak
ⓘ
haunting ⓘ |
| partOfAuthorEarlyWork | true ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A woman and her brother wander a nightmarish rural landscape after the abandonment of their incestuous child. ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Orchard Keeper ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1968 ⓘ |
| publisher | Random House ⓘ |
| setting | rural American South ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | early 20th century American South ⓘ |
| style |
biblical cadences
ⓘ
minimal punctuation ⓘ sparse prose ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Outer Dark Description of subject: Outer Dark is a bleak and haunting early novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a woman and her brother through a nightmarish rural American landscape after the abandonment of their incestuous child.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cormac McCarthy