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Das hätte durchaus langweilig und öde werden können (viele Auster-Fans denken da an den "Book of Illusions"-Flop). Doch "Leviathan", Austers 1992 erschienender vierter Roman, hat das Zeug, seinen genialen Erstlings- und Meisterwerk "The New York Trilogy" das Wasser zu reichen.
Zum Plot soll hier nicht viel verraten werden. Es geht, wie gesagt, um das Leben von Benjamin Sachs. Dieses beinhaltet jedoch so viel Abstruses und Abgefahrenes, Bewegendes und Tragisches und nicht zuletzt auch Witz und Ironie, dass der Leser gebannt den Verlauf der Ereignisse verfolgt.
Fazit: Auster at his best! Spannung und Sprachniveau bewegen sich am oberen Limit. Schlaflose Nächte sind garantiert.
In his novels, Auster manages to follow a pattern without becoming formulistic. As is often the case in his other work, Leviathan features
wild coincidences, cat-and-mouse detective chases and oddball characters who struggle to understand the motives for their own actions.
The main flaw in this novel, in my opinion, is the development of Reed Dimaggio. Although he only appears in one scene, he is an
important character that hovers like a ghost over the final third of the novel. Auster sketches the outline of a fascinating character, but
never gives us enough information to fill in between the lines, and we're never able to understand why he reacts the way that he does in
that one fatal scene. Dimaggio is a vital link in the bizarre chain of events that brings the novel to its conclusion, but in that we're never
able to make sense of his behavior the rest of the pieces don't quite fall into place.
That said, I found Leviathan to be a entertaining and remarkably intelligent novel which I read in 100 page gulps. Auster does not have
many equals in current American fiction. Leviathan is clever novel with big themes, in which everyone is a little bit crazy, we're all a
random mishap away from true madness, and isolated though we may be in this world we find that we're all connected in ways that we
least expect. Highly recommended.
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