Open AccessRituele van plesier: Dolf van Coller se Die Bieliebalies
Author(s) -
Johann Van Wyk
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
literator
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2219-8237
pISSN - 0258-2279
DOI - 10.4102/lit.v19i3.564
Subject(s) - tragedy (event) , context (archaeology) , philosophy , pleasure , morality , literature , psychoanalysis , psychology , art , history , epistemology , archaeology , neuroscience
Rituals of pleasure: Dolf van Coller’s Die Bieliebalies This article is an analysis of Dolf van Coller's Die Bieliebalies (1993), read as a hedonist text. It has many points of similarity with what Bakhtin (1984) called grotesque realism, and with Nietzsche’s views as expounded in The birth of tragedy (1956). By comparing Van Caller's text to that of Bakhtin and Nietzsche, a counter-discourse to contemporary moral discourses such as feminism is explored. Van Coller’s use of laughter as a relativising mechanism is very liberating in the context where petty morality intervenes dogmatically in the field of literature and other spheres of life