What I like and what I don't like of the Leviathan

Dear girls and one boy,

I’m not sure I like the Leviathan… too much emphasis in my opinion on contradictions, paradoxes, destiny and coincidences…

I really appreciated at the beginning of my reading the original point of narrative-observation, the voice off of Peter/Paul and I read anxiously, waiting for some answer of where is the clue.
However, I felt a little bit tired at the end by the repetitions of impossible coincidences, the personal signature given by Paul Auster to his novels, and by the exaggeration of some characters in their challenge to break down with the ’80 American Standard of life and thinking.
Anyway, I’d like to recognize that I found genial some part of the curious description of the Maria’s performances and the idea of the Phantom of Liberty is a really nice metaphor of the loneliness of a very little part of the American society in these years to cope with the Reagan epoch's way of life (¿The Leviathan …?).


…“In the past few months the Phantom of Liberty had been the subject of editorials and sermons. He had been discussed on call-in radio shows, caricatured in political cartoons, excoriated as a menace for the society, extolled as a man of the people. Phantom of Liberty T-shirts and buttons were on slae in novelty shops, jokes had begun to circulate and just last month two strippers in Chicago had presented an act in which the Staue of Liberty was gradually disrobed and then seduced by the Phantom. He was making a mark than he had ever thought possible”.

I don’t not very well Paul Auster, but I’d like to discuss with you what it means his fixed return to the “identity dilemma”…

see you tomorrow

federica