Seeking Whom He May Devour
- Seeking Whom He May Devour
infobox Book
name = Seeking Whom He May Devour
title_orig = L’Homme à l’envers
translator = David Bellos
author = Fred Vargas
cover_artist =
country = France
language = French
series = Commissaire Adamsberg
genre = Crime novel
publisher = Viviane Hamy (French) Harvill Secker (English)
release_date = 1999
english_pub_date = 28 October 2004
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 300 pp
isbn = ISBN 2-87858-107-5 (French) ISBN 1-84343-090-8 (English)
preceded_by = The Chalk Circle Man
followed_by = Have Mercy on Us All
"Seeking Whom He May Devour" ( _fr. L’Homme à l’envers, lit. "The Backwards Man") is a crime novel by French writer Fred Vargas. The novel features her series protagonist Commissaire 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. In this case, it is a biblical quotation from the First Epistle of Peter (5:8): "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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