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.

• Poétique, Paris: Seuil, 1968, 112 pp.
  • Introduction to Poetics, trans. Richard Howard, intro. Peter Brooks, Brighton: Harvester Press, 1981; University of Minnesota Press, 1981, xxxii+83 pp. (English)

• 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)
  • Introducere în literatura fantastică, Bucharest: Univers, 1973. (Romanian)
  • 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.

• Mikhaïl Bakhtine. Le principe dialogique suivi de Ecrits du Cercle de Bakhtine, Paris: Seuil, 1981, 318 pp.
  • Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle, trans. Wlad God­zich, University of Minnesota Press, 1984. (English)

• La conquête de l'Amérique, Paris: Seuil, 1982.
  • The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other, trans. Richard Howard, New York: Harper & Row, 1982. (English)

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

• Nous et les autres: la réflexion française sur la diversité humaine, Paris: Seuil, 1989, 452 pp.
  • On Human Diversity: Nationalism, Racism, and Exoticism in French Thought, trans. Catherine Porter, Harvard University Press, 1993, xvi+424 pp. (English)

• Face à l'extrême, Paris: Seuil, 1991, 345 pp.
  • Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps, trans. Arthur Denner and Abigail Pollak, New York: Metropolitan Books, 1996, 307 pp. (English)

• La Vie commune: essai d'anthropologie générale, Paris, 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)

• L'Homme dépaysé, Paris, 1998.
  • Omul dezrădăcinat, trans. Ion Pop, Iași: Institutul European, 1999. (Romanian)

• 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)

• Mémoire du mal, tentation du bien. Enquête sur le siècle, Paris: Robert Laffont, 2001, 358 pp.
  • Memoria răului, ispita binelui. O analiză a secolului, trans. Magdalena Boiangiu and Alexandru Boiangiu, Bucharest: Curtea veche, 2002. (Romanian)

• 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, PDF. (English)

Links

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