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年出生于美国纽约。

他是一个通才——是一位作家、漫画家，大多数时候，他则是一位音乐家。他是前卫流行乐队Slapp Happy的组建成员之一（摇滚界的亨利·卢梭），并与Faust、The Golden Palominos 、John Greaves、Andy Partridge等众多知名摇滚乐队合作过。布雷瓦目前和书中的小利维坦一样，生活在英国西伦敦的牧者林区（Shepherds Bush），并在华威大学开办写作课程。

布雷瓦所谱写的歌词，可谓是一座挤满了文字游戏和韵律的珍宝之屋。最具代表的就是他为John Greaves谱写的《邱园·隆河》（Kew. Rhone），其中的歌词“Peel’s foe not a set animal laminates a tone of sleep”，被评为世界上最长且符合语法规范的回文。