LEVIATHAN

Hi all,

Leviathan is the first book I have read by Paul Auster and I was shocked by it because I was expecting a mistery novel. Nevertheless, it's like a puzzle about Benjamin Sachs' life, a sort of biography about him, so I was surprised by it.

My favourite part is the bit in which Benjamin moves with Lillian and little Maria: I couldn't stop reading because I think the relationship between them was very special, mainly in the beginning when they meet each other.

The excerpt I have selected is one that talks about the end of this relationship and how the child feels that she has been neglected by Benjamin, the first person in her life that has taken really care about her: "They have fallen in love, perhaps, but they had also upset the balance of the household, and little Maria wasn't the least bit happy with the change. Her mother had been given back to her, but she had lost something as well, and from her point of view this loss must have felt like the crumbling of a world. For nearly a month, she and Sachs have lived together in a kind of paradise. She had been the sole object of his affections, and he had coddled her and doted her on her in ways that no one else had ever done. Now, without a single world of warning, he had abandoned her".

See you tomorrow,

Neus