title: The Seducer: A Novel
author:  Claudia Moscovici 
description: <span><span><span>Moscovicis new psychological thriller, </span><span style="font-style:italic;">The Seducer</span><span>, reminds us of classics like </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Anna Karenina</span><span> and </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Madame Bovary</span><span>, but with a contemporary twist. The new seducer is a psychopath, a dangerous predator without genuine emotion. . . . The narrative is bold, vivid, and lucid.</span></span></span> (Edward K. Kaplan, professor in the Humanities at Brandeis University)<br /><br /><span><span><span style="font-style:italic;">The Seducer </span><span>probes the chilling depths of alienation and selfishness as the heroine, Ana, is caught in the spiders web of her narcissistic lover, Michael. . . . A powerful novel about an unfortunate reality many women face.</span></span></span> (Carmen Firan, author of <i>Words and Flesh</i>)<br /><br /><span><span><span>Like the best, most delicious novels, Claudia Moscovicis psychological thriller, </span><span style="font-style:italic;">The Seducer</span><span>, grips you in its opening pages and holds you in its addictive clutches straight through to its dramatic, remarkable conclusion. This is a fascinating novel, on every page of which Moscovicis intimate understanding of the psychology of psychopaths and their victims gleams with a lasers concentrated brilliance.</span></span></span> (Steve Becker, MSW, LCSW, LoveFraud.com feature columnist, expert on psychopathy and narcissism)<br /><br /><span><span><span>In her exciting second novel, </span><span style="font-style:italic;">The Seducer</span><span>, Claudia Moscovici depicts with talent and psychological accuracy the spellbinding power of these charming yet dangerous Don Juans.</span></span></span> (D. R. Popa, author of <i>Lady V and Other Stories</i>)
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  # About the Author
  
  
  
  
  
  Claudia Moscovici has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University.
  She is the author of Velvet Totalitarianism, a critically acclaimed novel
  about a Romanian fam ily’s survival in an oppressive communist regime due to
  the strength of their love. She also published several scholarly books on
  political philosophy and the Romantic movement, focusing on psychological
  interpretations of art and literature. Her publications include Romanticism
  and PostRomanticism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), Gender and Citizenship
  (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000) and Double Dialectics (Rowman and Littlefield,
  2002). She taught philosophy, literature and arts and ideas at Boston
  University and at the University of Michigan. She’s currently working on a
  novel about psychopathic seduction and betrayal, called The Seducer.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  DANGEROUS LIAISONS
  
  
  
  
  
  How to Recognize and Escape from Psychopathic Seduction
  
  
  
  
  