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
Leviathan in popular culture In the light novel and anime "Gosick", Leviathan is the name of a famous alchemist whose true life and fate is one of the main mysteries on the story. In "Reborn!" there is a character named Leviathan who represents the sin Envy. In "Namiuchigiwa no Muromi-san" the character Levia-san was once Leviathan but hasn't transformed in centuries. In the "Sword Art Online": Extra Edition special, Leviathan The Sea Lord appears at the end of an underwater quest to force Kraken The Abyss Lord to retreat. His appearance has more in common with the Greek god Poseidon. In "Leviathan ~The Last