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Tzvetan Todorov

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born

March 01, 1939 in Sofia, Bulgaria

gender

male

genre

Poetics, History, Philosophy

influences

literary theory, thought history, semiotics, culture theory

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In Bulgarian Цветан Тодоров. Todorov is a Franco-Bulgarian historian, philosopher and literary theoretician. Among his most influential works is his theory on the fantastic, the uncanny and marvellous.

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Books by Tzvetan Todorov

Average rating: 3.87 · 709 ratings · 76 reviews · 75 distinct works

	The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other by Tzvetan Todorov, Richard Howard (Translator), Anthony Pagden (Foreword by) 4.01 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 1982 — 17 editions	My rating:
	The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre by Tzvetan Todorov, Richard Howard (Translator), Robert Scholes (Designed by) 3.82 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 1970 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Facing The Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps 4.15 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1991 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle by Tzvetan Todorov, Wlad Godzich (Translator) 3.96 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1981 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Introduction To Poetics by Tzvetan Todorov, Richard Howard (Translator) 3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Poetics of Prose 3.67 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1971 — 8 editions	My rating:
	In Defence of the Enlightenment 3.33 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Tzvetan Todorov, David Bellos (Translator) 4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions	My rating:
	La littérature en péril 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Genres in Discourse 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Tzvetan Todorov

“Toutes les opinions ne se valent pas, et il ne faut pas confondre l'éloquence d'une parole avec la justesse d'une pensée.”
― Tzvetan Todorov, In Defence of the Enlightenment

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