Avoiding evil in perpetrator fiction
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Avoiding evil in perpetrator fiction
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number791.430909358/0022
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]08675a
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]London, England
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Vallentine Mitchell
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2013
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp13-24
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]9780853038269
NotesArticle from the book 'Representing perpetrators in Holocaust literature and film' pp13-24
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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