Tzvetan Todorov

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Tzvetan Todorov [Цветан Тодоров] (1939) is a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, literary critic, sociologist and essayist.

Books

(in French unless noted)

  • Théorie de la littérature, textes des formalistes russes, Paris: Le Seuil, 1965.
  • Littérature et signification, Paris: Larousse, 1967.
  • Grammaire du "Décaméron", Paris: Mouton, 1969.
  • Introduction à la littérature fantastique, Paris, Le Seuil, 1970.
  • Poétique de la prose, Paris: Le Seuil, 1971.
    • The Poetics of Prose (1971) (English)
  • with Oswald Ducrot (eds.), Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences du langage, Paris: Seuil, 1972; 1979.
    • Dizionario enciclopedico delle scienze del linguaggio, trans. Giovanni Caravaggi, intro. Giulio C. Lepschy, Milan: Isedi, 1972, PDF. (Italian)
  • Introduction to Poetics (1981) (English)
  • The Conquest of America (1982) (English)
  • Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle (1984) (English)
  • Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps (1991) (English)
  • On Human Diversity (1993) (English)
  • Benjamin Constant, La Passion démocratique, Paris: Hachette Littératures, 1997.
    • Benjamin Constant. A Passion for Democracy, trans. Alice Seberry, New Yor: 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, Chicago: University of Chicago Press/ Polity Press, 2010, IA. (English)

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