Leviathan

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Leviathan Book Feature

Paperback: 274 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books (September 1, 1993)
Language: English

ISBN-10: 0140178139
ISBN-13: 978-0140178135
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.5 x 7.9 inches
New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy) opens Leviathan with the tearing of a bomb explosion and the death of one Benjamin Sachs. Ben’s one-time best friend, Peter Aaron, begins to retrospectively investigate the transformation that led Ben from his enviable, stable life to one of a recluse. Both were once intelligent, yet struggling novelists until Ben’s near-death experience falling from a fire escape triggers a tumble in which he becomes withdrawn and disturbed, living alone and building bombs in a far-off cabin. That is, until he mysteriously disappears, leaving behind only a manuscript titled Leviathan, pages rustling in the wind.

Leviathan Book Review

Paul Auster is a blatantly theoretical novelist. He dissects and deconstructs literary genres and trends with the precision of a Swiss watchmaker. But some accuse him of abandoning the delight of a story for a view from the ivory tower. I tend to disagree, for the most part, but offer up “Leviathan” as an example of an Auster book that’s both a page-turner and a think-piece.
For po-mo lit-lovers, Auster is in fine form. His modus operandi of casting himself as the literary quasi-detective is in full effect here. Narrator Peter Aaron (check those initials) is married to lovely Iris (Auster is married to novelist *Siri* Hustvedt). He is a writer by trade. “My books are published… people read them, and I don’t have any idea who they are… as long as they have my book in their hands, my words are the only reality that exists for them,” he says, defensively.
The book he is currently writing and the book “you” are currently holding is an examination of his recently deceased friend, Benjamin Sachs (“Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of the road in Northern Wisconsin,” reads the novel’s enticing opening line). Sachs has enough vaguely roguish qualities to make “Leviathan” a fascinating picaresque. But he’s also an idealist, and fiercely intelligent. He’s a writer manque, whose first novel blew the critics away but was a failure with readers. Sachs is a character who exists mostly in absentia, periodically jumping back into Aaron’s life to offer up enough details to tantalize his friend, and keep the reader off-balance. “Even though Sachs confided a great deal to me over the years of our friendship,” Aaron says. “I don’t claim to have more than a partial understanding of who he was. Get online Leviathan today.