Tzvetan Todorov
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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 otherwise)
- 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.
- 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.
- Théories du symbole, Paris: Seuil, 1977.
- Symbolisme et interprétation, Paris: Seuil, 1978.
- Les genres du discours, Paris: Seuil, 1978.
- editor, with J. Apresjan and F. G. Lounsbury, Investigaciones semánticas, Buenos Aires: Nueva Visión, 1978. 137 pp., PDF, PDF. (Spanish)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.