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 an aspect of Chauntea. In Steven Brust's novel "To Reign in Hell", Leviathan (female in this case) is one of seven elder inhabitants of Heaven who conspire to prevent Yahweh from creating the Earth as a sanctuary for himself and those loyal to him. "Leviathan" is the name of a novel by Scott Westerfeld about an alternate history in World War I. "Leviathan" is the title of a 1992 novel by Paul Auster. In Boris Akunin's novel "Murder on the Leviathan", Leviathan is the name of a gigantic steamship. "Leviathan Wakes" is the title a 2011 science fiction novel by