Leviathan (Auster novel) building accidentally went off. According to the forensic reports that have just been published, the man was killed instantly. His body burst into dozens of small pieces, and fragments of his corpse were found as far as fifty feet away from the site of the explosion. —"Leviathan" Through his own investigations, the narrator attempts to answer questions as to who the man was who blew himself up, why he was found with a homemade bomb, and what circumstances brought him to a violent end. "Leviathan" is borrowed from the biblical sea monster that Thomas Hobbes used as a metaphor for
Book of Jasher (biblical references) Book of Jasher (biblical references) The Book of Jasher (also, Jashar) or the Book of the Upright or the Book of the Just Man (; transliteration: "sēfer hayyāšār") is an unknown book mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. The translation "Book of the Just Man" is the traditional Greek and Latin translation, while the transliterated form "Jasher" is found in the King James Bible, 1611. The book appears to be referenced from around the reign of David. David's lament for Jonathan immediately follows. The King James Version of the English Bible has the inclusion ""the use of"" in italics, material its