Avoiding evil in perpetrator fiction

The aim of this essay is to analyse how perpetrator fiction avoids dealing with the fundamental question of evil that reflection on the Holocaust evokes. Describes the ways in which this happens as 'swerves', as many of the fictions suggest that they will address this, but usually swerve away from the core problem. Includes in this elaboration a discussion of Jonathan Littell's novel 'The Kindly Ones'