Tzvetan Todorov
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Цветан Тодоров March 1, 1939 Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Residence | Paris, France |
| Nationality | French/Bulgarian |
| Alma mater |
University of Sofia University of Paris |
| Spouse(s) | Nancy Huston (?–?) |
| Awards | CNRS Bronze Medal, the Charles Lévêque Prize of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques and the first Maugean Prize of the Académie française and the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences; he also is an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
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Continental philosophy Structuralism |
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Main interests
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Literary criticism |
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Notable ideas
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The Fantastic |
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Tzvetan Todorov (French: [dzvetɑ̃ todɔʁɔv]; Bulgarian: Цветан Тодоров; born March 1, 1939) is a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist. He is the author of many books and essays, which have had a significant influence in anthropology, sociology, semiotics, literary theory, thought history and culture theory.
After taking his M.A. in philology at the University of Sofia in 1963, he emigrated to France and enrolled at the University of Paris, where he took his doctorat de troisième cycle (equivalent to the Ph.D.) in 1966 and his doctorat ès lettres in 1970. He was married to Nancy Huston, with whom he has two children.
Todorov has published a total of 21 books, including The Poetics of Prose (1971), Introduction to Poetics (1981), The Conquest of America (1982), Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle (1984), Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps (1991), On Human Diversity (1993), Hope and Memory (2000), and Imperfect Garden: The Legacy of Humanism (2002). Todorov's historical interests have focused on such crucial issues as the conquest of The Americas and the Nazi and Stalinist concentration camps.
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