Tzvetan Todorov

Tzvetan Todorov [Цветан Тодоров] (March 1, 1939 – February 7, 2017) was a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, literary critic, sociologist and essayist.

Books

(in French unless noted)

• Théorie de la littérature, textes des formalistes russes, Paris: Seuil, 1965.

• Littérature et signification, Paris: Larousse, 1967.

• Grammaire du "Décaméron", Paris: Mouton, 1969.

• Introduction à la littérature fantastique, Paris, Seuil, 1970.
  • The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre, trans. Richard Howard, 1973. (English)
  • Introducción a la literatura fantástica, trans. Silvia Delpy, Mexic: Silvia Delpy, 1980; 2nd ed., 1981, PDF, ARG. (Spanish)

• Poétique de la prose, Paris: Seuil, 1971, 1978, PDF, PDF, IA, ARG.
  • The Poetics of Prose, 1971. (English)

• editor, with Oswald Ducrot, Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences du langage, Paris: Seuil, 1972; 1979, PDF.
  • Dizionario enciclopedico delle scienze del linguaggio, trans. Giovanni Caravaggi, intro. Giulio C. Lepschy, Milan: Isedi, 1972, PDF. (Italian)
  • Diccionario enciclopédico de las ciencias del lenguaje, trans. E. Pezzoni, Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 1974, PDF. (Spanish)

• Théories du symbole, Paris: Seuil, 1977.

• Symbolisme et interprétation, Paris: Seuil, 1978.

• Les genres du discours, Paris: Seuil, 1978.

• Introduction to Poetics, 1981. (English)

• The Conquest of America, 1982. (English)

• Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle, 1984. (English)

• Frêle bonheur. Essai sur Rousseau, Paris: Hachette, 1985.
  • Frail Happiness: An Essay on Rousseau, trans. John T. Scott and Robert D. Zaretsky, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001, ARG. (English)

• Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps, 1991. (English)

• On Human Diversity, 1993. (English)

• La Vie commune: essai d'anthropologie générale, Paris, Le Seuil, 1995.
  • Life in Common. An Essay in General Anthropology, trans. Katherine Golsan and Lucy Golsan, Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2001, PDF, PDF, IA, ARG. (English)

• Benjamin Constant, La Passion démocratique, Paris: Hachette Littératures, 1997.
  • Benjamin Constant. A Passion for Democracy, trans. Alice Seberry, New York: Algora, 1999, PDF. (English)

• Le jardin imparfait: la pensée humaniste en France, Paris: Grasset, 1998.
• Imperfect garden: the legacy of humanism, trans. Carol Cosman, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002, PDF. (English)

• Hope and Memory, 2000. (English)
• Imperfect Garden: The Legacy of Humanism, 2002. (English)

• La peur des barbares, Paris: Robert Laffont, 2008.
  • The fear of barbarians: beyond the clash of civilizations, trans. Andrew Brown, University of Chicago Press/Polity Press, 2010, IA. (English)

Links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzvetan_Todorov
• http://www.signosemio.com/todorov/index-en.asp