Welcome to a new strange world.

In a dazzling work of graphic fiction, a surreal journey through a wonderland eerily like real life, The Book of Leviathan chronicles an infant's investigations into life's great mysteries. Endowed with a preternatural interest in metaphysics and philosophy, yet as confused as any innocent by the vagaries of adult behavior, little Levi bears the added burden of living in a world that can literally change at the stroke of a pen.

Aided by a wise pet ("Cat") and a favorite toy ("Bunny"), Levi encounters a frothing ectoplasmic Hegel and a woefully off-the-mark Freud. In less heady adventures, Levi contemplates why his parents disappear at night (and whether he is wholeheartedly pleased when they return each morning); the regrettable liberties taken with the English language; and the relationship between Bennetton and Pablo Neruda.

Peter Blegvad's Book of Leviathan assembles the cream from Levi and Cat's adventures, published in The Independent on Sunday newspaper in the twilight years of the old Millennium. Blegvad's darkly humorous work has been described by Matt Groening as "one of the weirdest things I've ever stared at."Quirky and referential, dark and droll by turn, it follows the faceless baby Levi's journeys into and out of the world. They are escapes, but as some sage once observed, only a jailer would consider the term "escapist" pejorative.

彼得·布雷瓦（Peter Blegvad），1951年齣生於美國紐約。

他是一個通纔——是一位作傢、漫畫傢，大多數時候，他則是一位音樂傢。他是前衛流行樂隊Slapp Happy的組建成員之一（搖滾界的亨利·盧梭），並與Faust、The Golden Palominos 、John Greaves、Andy Partridge等眾多知名搖滾樂隊閤作過。布雷瓦目前和書中的小利維坦一樣，生活在英國西倫敦的牧者林區（Shepherds Bush），並在華威大學開辦寫作課程。

布雷瓦所譜寫的歌詞，可謂是一座擠滿瞭文字遊戲和韻律的珍寶之屋。最具代錶的就是他為John Greaves譜寫的《邱園·隆河》（Kew. Rhone），其中的歌詞“Peel’s foe not a set animal laminates a tone of sleep”，被評為世界上最長且符閤語法規範的迴文。