Tzvetan Todorov (Bulgarian: Цветан Тодоров) (born on March 1, 1939 in Sofia) is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher. He has lived in France since 1963 writing books and essays about literary theory, thought history and culture theory. March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full year calendar). ... Position of Sofia in Bulgaria Coordinates: Country Bulgaria Province Sofia-City Government  - Mayor Boyko Borisov Area  - City 1,310 km²  (505. ... Motto: Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité Liberty, Equality, Fraternity Anthem: La Marseillaise Metropolitan France() – on the European continent() – in the European Union() [] Capital  (and largest city)  Paris Official languages French Government Unitary republic  - President Jacques Chirac  - Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin Formation    - French State 843 (Treaty of Verdun)   - Current constitution 1958 (5th... A philosopher is a person who thinks deeply regarding people, society, the world, and/or the universe. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Literary theory is the theory (or the philosophy) of the interpretation of literature and literary criticism. ... The history of ideas is a field of research in history that deals with the expression, preservation, and change of human ideas over time. ... Culture theory is the branch of anthropology and other related social science disciplines (e. ...

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. World map showing the Americas The Americas are the lands of the Western hemisphere historically considered to consist of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions. ... National Socialism redirects here. ... Stalinism is a brand of political theory, and the political and economic system implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. ... A concentration camp is a large detention centre created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ...

Todorov has been a visiting professor at several universities, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia and the University of California, Berkeley. Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Yale redirects here. ... Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ...

His honors have included the Bronze Medal of the CNRS, the Charles Lévêque Prize of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques and the first Maugean Prize of the Académie Française; he also is an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Todorov lives in Paris with his wife Nancy Huston and their two children. Nancy Huston (born September 16, 1953) is a Canadian-born author who writes primarily in French. ...

Bibliography

• Introduction à la littérature fantastique (1970), translated as The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre
• (French)"'L'esprit des Lumières a encore beaucoup à faire dans le monde d'aujourd'hui' ('The Spirit of the Enlightenment still has a lot to do in today's world')", Le Monde, March 4, 2006.
• "'In search for lost crime: Tribunals, apologies, reparations, and the search for justice.'", The New Republic, January 26, 2001.

• Conquest of America : the question of the other (1984), translated from the French by Richard Howard.
• Facing the extreme : moral life in the concentration camps (2000), translated by Arthur Denner and Abigail Pollack.
• Fragility of goodness : why Bulgaria's Jews survived the Holocaust (2001), a collection of texts with commentary by Tzvetan Todorov.
• French tragedy : scenes of civil war, summer 1944 (1996), translated by Mary Byrd Kelly ; translation edited and annotated by Richard J. Golsan.
• Hope and memory : lessons from the twentieth century (2003), translated by David Belos.
• Imperfect garden : the legacy of humanism (2002), translated by Carol Cosman.
• Life in common : an essay in general anthropology (2001), translated by Katherine Golsan and Lucy Golsan ; with a new afterword by the author.
• Mikhail Bakhtin : the dialogical principle (1984), translated by Wlad Godzich.
• New world disorder : reflections of a European (2005), preface by Stanley Hoffmann ; translated by Andrew Brown.
• On human diversity : nationalism, racism, and exoticism in French thought (1993), translated by Catherine Porter.
• Voices from the Gulag : life and death in communist Bulgaria (1999), Tzvetan Todorov (ed.) ; translated by Robert Zaretsky.

The Age of Enlightenment (French: Siècle des Lumières, German: Aufklärung) refers to the eighteenth century in European and American philosophy, or the longer period including the Age of Reason. ...

See also

• Fantastic
• Genre studies