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.

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(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.
    • 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, Mexico: Silvia Delpy, 1980; 2nd ed., 1981, PDF, ARG. (Spanish)
  • Poétique de la prose, Paris: Seuil, 1971, 1978, PDF, PDF, 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.
  • editor, with J. Apresjan and F. G. Lounsbury, Investigaciones semánticas, Buenos Aires: Nueva Visión, 1978, 137 pp, 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, ARG. (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)
  • Les morales de l'histoire, Paris: Grasset, 1991, 308 pp.
    • The Morals of History, trans. Alyson Waters, University of Minnesota Press, 1995, xx+228 pp, ARG. (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, 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, ARG. (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, PDF, ARG. (English)
    • La paura dei barbari. Oltre lo scontro delle civiltà, Garzanti, 2011, EPUB. (Italian)
  • The Limits of Art: Two Essays, trans. Gila Walker, London: Seagull, 2010, 100 pp, ARG. (English)

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