Avoiding evil in perpetrator fiction
TitleAvoiding evil in perpetrator fiction
Author
Call number791.430909358/0022
Object number08675a
Place of publicationLondon, England
PublisherVallentine Mitchell
Year of publication
2013
Physical descriptionpp13-24
MaterialArticle
ISBN9780853038269
NotesArticle from the book 'Representing perpetrators in Holocaust literature and film' pp13-24
Description
The aim of this essay is to analyse how perpetrator fiction avoids dealing with the fundamental questions of evil that reflection on the Holocaust evokes. The ways in which this happens are described as 'swerves' as many of the fictions swerve away from the core problems