Tag: Claudia Moscovici

• 21st Century Dada: when logic is not enough

  From Literary Kicks, here’s Claudia Moscovici on Barna Nemethi’s Fashionable 21st Century Dada: “One of the most creative and irreverent art movements was Dada, founded by a Romanian poet, Tristan Tzara. Like Surrealism, which later sprung from it, Dada was a broad cultural movement, involving the visual arts, poetry, literature, theater, graphic design and–inevitably–even politics.…

  Bill Ectric

  May 6, 2011

  art, Barna Nemethi, Claudia Moscovici, Dada, Literary Kicks, Surrealism, Tristan Tzara

• Good Reading Ahead

  Two books arrived in the mail yesterday! Thomas Pynchon (1974, Warner Paperback Library), by Joseph W. Slade, is a detailed analysis of all Pynchon’s short stories and novels up through Gravity’s Rainbow, which was Pynchon’s most recent book at the time this study was written. In the preface, Slade’s list of prerequisites for studying Pynchon include, among others, Joseph…

  Bill Ectric

  February 9, 2011

  1970’s, Claudia Moscovici, Joseph Slade, Joseph W. Slade, Post-Stalinist Romania, Thomas Pynchon, Velvet Totalitarianism, writers, Writers For the 70’s, writing

• Eyes Over Romania: Dracula Survives

  Claudia Moscovici, via Literary Kicks, says, “As a native Romanian who is also a novelist, I’m very intrigued and, frankly, somewhat baffled by America’s obsession with vampires and the Dracula legend.” Read the entire article here, including Claudia’s list of five possible reasons we are fascinated by vampires, followed by some discussion.

  Bill Ectric

  February 2, 2011

  Claudia Moscovici, Dracula, mystery, myth, Romania, Vampires, Vlad Tepes