"The Nobel Prize in literature for 2009 is awarded to the German author Herta Mueller, who with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose depicts the landscape of the dispossessed,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

Leviathan is to prose what Milton's Paradise Lost is to epic poetry.

利维坦》之于散文,就像弥尔顿的《失乐园》之于史诗。

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