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 (2014 film) based on 134 reviews, and an average rating of 8.6/10. The website's critical consensus reads, ""Leviathan" lives up to its title, offering trenchant, well-crafted social satire on a suitably grand scale." On Metacritic, based on 34 reviews, "Leviathan" holds an average score of 92 out of 100, indicating "universal acclaim". Thirty-five percent of the funding for "Leviathan" came from Russia's Ministry of Culture. However, Vladimir Medinsky, Minister of Culture, a conservative historian, acknowledged that the film showed talented moviemaking, but said he did not like it. He sharply criticized its portrayal of ordinary Russians as swearing, vodka-swigging people, which he