ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I argue that the perpetrator voice and status are undermined in multiple ways, firstly through a progressive failure to adhere to medical ethics, which underscores Dr. García Medina’s narrative dubitability and inspires readerly distrust. I then examine the relationship between multidirectional memory, ecocriticism and perpetrator memory in the portrayal of Adrián Gallardo Ortega’s participation in the killing of Jews in the Klooga concentration camp in Estonia, with the express aim of ascertaining the causation of perpetration and the authenticity of the ensuing perpetrator trauma. Departing from Erving Goffman’s conceptualisation of “stigma,” I finally examine the stigma of illness and the representation of the perpetrator body through the lens of economic, social and corporeal capital.
