Het vijfde seizoen
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Het vijfde seizoen (2003) is a nobrow essay anthology by Dutch writer Joost Zwagerman. The title translates in English as The Fifth Season. It is similar to Stranger Shores: Literary Essays, 1986-1999 by Coetzee.
Some of the chapters include:
- Why Emma Bovary is related to Don Quixote.
- Why Harry Mulisch maintains that he does not and has never existed.
- Why plagiarism is usually not plagiarism
- In 1927 a Canadian citizen, Florence Deeks, sued Wells for plagiarism, claiming that much of the The Outline of History was lifted from her unpublished manuscript, "The Web of the World's Romance".
- On George Orwell and his widow Sonia Brownell.
- On Martin Amis's relation to his father and his books Experience and The War Against Cliché.
- On bohemianism and bourgeois, in reality a review of Village Voice contributor Ross Wetzsteon's book Republic of Dreams.
- On Edie Sedgwick and the negative influence of Andy Warhol on her life, also features the episode when Bob Dylan wanted to "recrute" Edie.
- An interview with Arthur C. Danto his essay on "the end of art" after Andy Warhol's made his Brillo Boxes.
- On Madonna's biographers
- Why porn star Linda Lovelace turned into a moral crusader.
- On Mario Testino, with mentions of heroin chic.
- On Kurt Cobain's suicide.
- An interview with Norman Mailer written in the third person singular.
- A review of John Updike's Seek My Face.
- On David Leavitt.
- Suicide and depression
- Why poets commit suicide more often than prose writers.
- On the relationship between creativity and depression (Touched with Fire).
- Interview with Andrew Solomon, author The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression.
- Why the short story is neglected in The Netherlands and celebrated in the United States.
- Why 9/11 led to hysterical cultural criticism.
- On Gerrit Komrij and Henk Hofland's fascination with feces.
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