Ondskan ("The Evil") is a Swedish novel by Jan Guillou. ErikPonti is a fourteen-year-old boy living in the 1950s Stockholm lower middle class. His sadistic
the early 1970s. The author's alter ego created for the novel is named ErikPonti, a character that would return in several of his later novels. His third
Mikhail Gorbachev. Jan Guillou himself is the basis of a character named ErikPonti, which was the alter ego he used in his autobiographical novel Ondskan