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Abstract
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In this study, Hans Fallada's Every Man Dies Alone, Georges Perec's Portrait of a Man and William Golding's Lord of the Flies, which are three important works of 20th century literature, have been analyzed with poststructuralist literary criticism theories based on the types of evil that Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek classifies as super ego, ego and id evil. The theories of evil based on theology constituted the general valid understanding of it during the period up to Immanuel Kant. The emergence of an innate understanding of evil after Kant constitutes the starting point of this study. One of the most important reasons for choosing the 20th century as the period under study is that it contains examples of extreme evil such as the Holocaust. For this reason, 20th century novels have been selected in order to best analyze the relationship between the modern subject and evil. The fact that the types of evil in the chosen novels are not limited and they are not necessarily concentrated on ego evil has also been a factor taken into consideration while determining the scope.
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