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 Leviathan - Paul Auster
 Leviathan - Paul Auster ... life of it's hero, Benjamin Sachs.Newest Review: ... the events of his friend’s life, from the moment they met until he was killed by the bomb. It is the intention of the ... more ... narrator to use the book he is writing as a counterweight to the lies he knows will be written about his friend once his identity is discovered by the police. There are a number of recurring themes from Auster’s other books that surface in this novel. Perhaps the most notable is the fact that the narrator’s name closely echoes Auster’s – he is called Peter Aaron. Both Aaron and Sachs, the friend about whom he is writing, are published writers. Aaron is content with his profession, but Sachs ...more |
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Leviathan - Paul Auster: Blowing up the Statue of Liberty (930 words)
by - written on 17/07/01 (Very useful, 1749 readings)
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As you can probably tell from the other opinions I have written, I am a bit of a Paul Auster fan. However, that doesn’t stop me from being honest and saying that this is not one of his better books. If you like Auster, there is plenty here for you to enjoy but, in general, it is just missing that certain something that has made other things I have read by him impossible to put down. The central theme of “Leviathan”, where a writer sets about trying to document the life of a friend, will be familiar to anyone who has read Auster’s “New York Trilogy”. In the “New York Trilogy” this happens in the short story ... Read the complete review
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