Seeking Whom He May Devour
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| Author | Fred Vargas |
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| Original title | L’Homme à l’envers |
| Translator | David Bellos |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Genre(s) | crime/Thriller novel |
| Publisher | The Harvill Press |
| Publication date | 28 October 2004 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 288 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 1-84343-090-8 |
Seeking Whom He May Devour (L’Homme à l’envers) is a 1999 novel by French crime-writer Fred Vargas. The novel features her series protagonist Commisairre Adamsberg, and concerns the supposed existence of werewolves in a remote French village. As with many of Vargas' novels in English translation, the English title bears no relationship to the original (The Backwards Man). IN this case, it is a biblical quotation from the first letter of Peter Ch5 v8: Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour
As with several of Vargas's novels, she uses the device of imposing fearful old myths/legends into a modern setting to examine human fear and paranoia. In 2004, it became the second of her novels to be translated into English (by award-winning translator David Bellos), and was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger.
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