Claudia Moscovici
- Location
- Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
- Birthday
- June 06
- Title
- novelist and literary/art critic
- Bio
- Claudia Moscovici is the author of the critically acclaimed novels "Velvet Totalitarianism" (2009) and "The Seducer" (2011). "Velvet Totalitarianism" was republished in translation in her native country, Romania, under the title "Intre Doua Lumi" (Curtea Veche Publishing, 2011). In 2002, she co-founded with Mexican sculptor Leonardo Pereznieto the international aesthetic movement called “postromanticism” (see http://postromanticism.com/), devoted to celebrating beauty, passion and sensuality in contemporary art. She wrote a book on Romanticism and its postromantic survival called "Romanticism and Postromanticism," (Lexington Books, 2007) and taught philosophy, literature and arts and ideas at Boston University and at the University of Michigan. Most recently, she published a nonfiction book on psychopathic seduction, called "Dangerous Liaisons" (Hamilton Books, 2011).
MY RECENT POSTS
- Interview with Ziare.com about
The Seducer and other novels
April 20, 2013 11:49AM - Review of Bogdan George
Apetri's Outbound (Periferic)
November 08, 2012 06:56PM - Psychopaths: The Losers who
View Themselves as Leaders
October 28, 2012 12:59PM - Preface to The Cube: The
Tradition of Speculative
Fiction
October 13, 2012 09:48PM - Review of Cristian Mungiu's 4
Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
September 21, 2012 02:44PM
Claudia Moscovici's Links
Interview with Ziare.com about The Seducer and other novels
Interview about my novels The Seducer and Velvet Totalitarianism with Ziare.com (in English)
photo credit Romani Celebri
I’ve translated below parts of my interview with Diana Robu, which was originally published in Romanian in Ziare.com (Newspapers.com).
… Read full post »Review of Bogdan George Apetri's Outbound (Periferic)
Bogdan George Apetri
Bogdan George Apetri’s film, Outbound (Periferic), represents the best of the new Romanian cinema. The movie, starring Ana Ularu and produced by Saga Film in collaboration with the Austrian company Aichholzer Filmproduktiion, is based on a short story co-written
Psychopaths: The Losers who View Themselves as Leaders
Psychopaths are Losers who view themselves as Leaders. As we've seen, unless there's a specific advantage for him, a psychopath never admits to being wrong, to doing wrong, to having wronged anyone. Whatever he does wrong to others--cheating, lying, manipulation, hurting them emotionally/… Read full post »
Preface to The Cube: The Tradition of Speculative Fiction
Preface to The Cube
By Claudia Moscovici
Love story, science fiction based on an interesting analogy to the laws of physics, apocalyptic vision and political allegory replete with sociopathic, evil leaders: Nat Karody’s new novel, The Cube, has something to please ever
… Read full post »Review of Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
a) Thank God for Cannes!
In an interview with Domenico La Porta given on May 19, 2012, Cristian Mungiu, winner of the Palme D’Or for feature film at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007 for his movie 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, e/
… Read full post »Why Writers Write: Myths about Being a Writer
The Seducer by Claudia Moscovici
In my career as a writer–of both fiction and literary/art criticism–I have encountered many myths about why writers write. Some of them I even believed myself when I was younger. It is tempting and glamorous to believe that writing is a pro/
… Read full post »Why We Love Books
How books are made, the process of publishing, who writes them and for what purpose has changed tremendously over time. But one thing remains the same: we still love to read books. Under whatever form–paperback, hardcover, ebooks or audio–books are here to stay. Here are som
… Read full post »Saving Culture: The Importance of "Culture" to our Cultures
Paradoxically, it is cultural theorists such as Pierre Bourdieu (author ofDistinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste), Jean Baudrillard (author of Simulacra and Simulation) and Jean-Francois Lyotard (author of The Postmod
… Read full post »Sauver la Culture
Sauver la culture: De l’importance de la “culture” pour nos cultures
Paradoxalement, ce sont des théoriciens de la culture tels que Pierre Bourdieu (auteur de La distinction : critique sociale du jugement, 1979), Jean Baudrillard (auteur de Simu
… Read full post »Forces of Culture: Oprah's Book Club and The Huffington Post
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey and Oprah’s Book Club
Oprah Winfrey‘s life story reads like the classic American dream, a tale from rags to riches. Born into poverty in Mississippi, Oprah became the most successful talk show host as well as one of the richest and most influential/
… Read full post »How to Publish Books in the U.S.
The Seducer by Claudia Moscovici(Note: This article was initially published in Romanian translation on the Curtea Veche Publishing blog, on the link http://www.curteaveche.ro/blog/2012/08/08/procesul-de-editare-in-statele-unite-perspectiva-unui-scriitor/)
Two of the most
… Read full post »The Upside of Romania's Culture Wars: When Culture Matters
With the recent change of regime in Romania, what ensued during the past few months could be described as a downright culture war. Rumors of corruption and accusations of plagiarism against political and cultural leaders in the country abound, while Romania's leading intellectuals a/… Read full post »
Vali Hotea
The Romanian director Valentin (Vali) Hotea is not new to the film scene. He made his debut in the 1990′s with his short film The Big Adventure(Marea Aventura). This movie depicts with stark frankness and a picture-perfect, photographic style a young/… Read full post »
Why We (Still) Love Audrey Hepburn
Audrey HepburnWith an unforgettable elfish, delicate and childlike beauty and extraordinary talents in acting, languages and dance, Audrey Hepburn is also known as an avid humanitarian. Since I have been educated in a tradition of “cultural studies”, perhaps initiated by the/… Read full post »
The Seducer and Anna Karenina
Psychopathic seducers, as social predators, target countless victims. But they attach like parasites, for a long time, to comparatively few: only to their most promising hosts. I think that promising victims give off a scent of vulnerability, of unfulfilled desires that are perfect/… Read full post »
When Art intersects with Mathematics: Cristian Todie
(Note: this essay is dedicated to my parents, the mathematicians Henri and Elvira Moscovici)
It’s only relatively recently in cultural history—during the past hundred years or so--that the disciplines became so highly specialized (and advanced) that it’s nearly impossible f… Read full post »
Why We Love Brancusi
Like his magnificent statues, for Romanians, the artist Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) is a national monument. To extend the metaphor, he’s also one of the pillars of Modernism. A favorite in his host country, France, he even has, like his mentor Auguste Rodin, his own m/… Read full post »
Review of Alain de Botton's Religion for Atheists
For me, Alain de Botton’s highly visible career as a public intellectual represents a personal journey as well. He took the path I wish I had pursued, as he did, much earlier in life. Therefore, here, I will not only review his newest book, Religion for Atheists (2012), b/… Read full post »
The Seducer: A Novel
The Seducer, my new novel about psychopathic seduction, is now in print, available for purchase on amazon.com and other bookstores.
Advance Praise for The… Read full post »From Eros to Thanatos: Damien Hirst and Postromanticism.com
Damien Hirst is probably the most controversial and successful artist of our times, particularly if one measures success by how much critical attention art gets and how much it sells for. The founder of the avant-garde Young British Artists and considered to be the riches/… Read full post »
Poetry in Motion: The Dance Photography of Richard Calmes
The twentieth century was the era of specialization. Every field became so highly specialized and technical that only experts could master each discipline. The twenty-first century, however, is the era of collaboration. As an art critic, I’ve witnessed this comingling am/… Read full post »
The Google Art Project and Google Music
On February 1, 2011 Google launched the groundbreaking Google Art Project. This is an online, high-resolution compilation of some of the greatest works of art, featured in some of the most famous museums, worldwide: including theMetropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum… Read full post »
Andy "Soundland" Platon: A Romanian Pop Music Prodigy
Ever since I was a teenager I’ve been a big fan of pop music. As I grew older, I retained a certain nostalgia for 80′s and 90′s bands like U2, who seem to have made it through the generations and even have echoes in the music my teenage daughter Sophie/
… Read full post »Confessions of a twenty-first century salonnière
When I openened a twitter account a few months ago, it wasn’t difficult to find the phrase that best captures me: “Born in the wrong century, a would-be salonnière.” Ever since college, when I first learned about Marquise de Rambouillet–the refined hostes/
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