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	On Lem on Todorov
		Todorov's purpose in that portion of the book that Lem attacks is a simple one: to investigate a literary category, a "genre," characterized by a particular effect, and to discover the rule that defines this category.
		Todorov, however, is not speaking directly of historical genres, but of "theoretically possible" genres, elementary and complex, defined by the presence or absence of a single structural trait or a conjunction of such traits, respectively.
		The usefulness of Todorov's method, in its movement from this level of theory back to practice lies in the adequacy of the following observation: "On all evidence, the historical genres are a subset of the set of complex theoretically possible genres" (translated from p35 of French text).
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/6/lemtodorov6forum.htm (2740 words)

	Tzvetan Todorov. Devoirs et delices: une vie de passeur. Entretiens avec Catherine Portevin Style - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Todorov occupies an ambivalent position, it is true, at the intersection of various disciplines and at the margins of dominant theoretical movements, such as poststructuralism and postmodernism.
		Todorov considers that there is always some evil in good and vice versa, noting for example that art and culture were encouraged and supported under the totalitarian regime in Bulgaria (342-43).
		When confronted about the "softness of the center," Todorov confesses that "for someone like me, whose vision of the political world was structured by life under totalitarianism, the important term is 'democracy'; whether one is a left-wing or a right-wing democrat is secondary, since the choice depends on the circumstances" (347).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2342/is_3_37/ai_n6006609 (614 words)

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		Todorov, however, is cautious and austere in his review of these materials, anxious both to withhold unmerited praise and to bestow it upon those to whom it is genuinely due.
		Todorov dives into the equally complicated problem of trying to figure out what causal relationship may have existed between the Thracian and Macedonian deportations and Boris’s decision to stop the Bulgarian deportation, when it was finally made.
		Todorov writes that on May 20th, in an audience with his minister of internal affairs, Boris “hedged; yes, he would [be] very pleased if the Germans resolved his ‘Jewish question,’ but for the moment he really needs ‘his’ Jews for road maintenance.
	home.comcast.net /~rossen47/savingbulgarianjews/todorov-review.doc (3834 words)

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		Todorov seeks further to identify the leading French thinkers on these subjects, and in doing so to identify the main proponents of what he believes are the key "ideologies" or "justifications" of French "colonial conquests" (xiii).
		Todorov's discussion of this aliance between the scientific and the colonial is on the whole fully persuasive.
		Todorov confronted with increasing frequency the "vacuity of the official discourse," a lofty Orwellian language whose real function was to mask the apparatus of domination.
	www.infomotions.com /serials/pmc/pmc-v5n3-strenski-ethics.txt (1522 words)

	Genres in Discourse (Literature, Culture, Theory) by Tzvetan Todorov [ISBN: 052134249X] - Find Cheap Textbook Prices & ...
		Tzvetan Todorov has become a giant in literary criticism ever since his first emergence as a thinker in the 1960's.
		Todorov explores the functional and structural elements of literature; the origin of genres; narratology; poetry when "verse" is removed; and the complex interaction between reader and text.
		Todorov is a master of discourse, as his arguments contain the logic of classic reasoning with the leaps of an inventive thinker.
	www.gettextbooks.com /isbn_052134249X.html (307 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Culture \| Between Scylla and Charybdis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Todorov describes sacralisation and banalisation as the Scylla and Charybdis of memory as both deny the proper use of the past in the present.
		As Todorov writes in the April 2001 issue of Le Monde Diplomatique, "the same painful past and suffering experienced by the Jews has led to two opposing lessons: it is in the name of this same past that judge Moshe Landau legalised the torture of the 'enemy' [i.e.
		Todorov was adamant that a citizen's right to seek the truth is fundamental, but he failed to see how pertinent it was to discuss the truth's level of purity in the context of his lecture.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/530/cu2.htm (794 words)

	Tzvetan Todorov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tzvetan Todorov (Bulgarian: Цветан Тодоров) (born on March 1, 1939 in Sofia) is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tzvetan_Todorov (274 words)

	Tzvetan Todorov: Voices from the Gulag
		In Voices from the Gulag Tzvetan Todorov singles out the experience of one country where the concentration camps were particularly brutal and emblematic of the horrors of totalitarianism—communist Bulgaria.
		Todorov compiled them for this book and has written an introductory essay—a lucid and troubling analysis of totalitarianism and the role that terror and the concentration camp play in such a world.
		Born in Sofia, Tzvetan Todorov left Bulgaria in the early 1960s and moved to Paris, where he established himself as a literary theorist, historian of ideas, and world-renowned essayist.
	www.psupress.org /books/titles/0-271-01961-1.html (547 words)

	FT April: Books in Review: Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Todorov calls himself a “critical humanist,” and he believes that the major democratic states of the world must not only stake out the moral high ground but must stick to it, which he claims they have not done.
		Todorov turns our attention once again to the monstrous parallels in these totalitarian systems, which were similar in their intent to reshape the world mechanically and hence brutally—to create a new man and a new order.
		Tzvetan Todorov’s analysis of the same century-long crisis ends with the words “precious human beings.” Todorov has no dream, only foreboding; yet in the midst of his doubt he wishes to cherish the survival of the human spirit.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0404/reviews/eksteins.html (1723 words)

	Tzvetan Todorov: Frail Happiness
		Todorov turned to Rousseau, he tells us, because he no longer found the professional language of scholarship an effective means for addressing such questions and because he found in Rousseau a seemingly immediate language that could speak about what is difficult and problematic in human life.
		Todorov explores these ways of life and their relevance for us two centuries after Rousseau.
		Tzvetan Todorov is a director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris.
	www.psupress.org /books/titles/0-271-02110-1.html (411 words)

	English Studies Forum
		Tzvetan Todorov’s Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth Century is a book about the past century aimed at the general reader as opposed to the specialist.
		Todorov writes that his focus in this book is on totalitarianism as manifested in Communism and Nazism and the relation of these two ideologies to science and humanism.
		First, Todorov never seems to question the apparent objectivity purported by such historical fact-finding missions, nor does he envisage the possibility that facts are recovered/constructed in accordance to the frame of reference that uncovers them.
	www.bsu.edu /web/esf/1.2/cronin.htm (1238 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Fragility of Goodness: Books: Tzvetan Todorov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In The Fragility of Goodness, well-known literary theorist Tzvetan Todorov, Director of Research at the Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques in Paris, author of Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps, presents the facts as they occurred in Bulgaria during the crucial years from March 1941 onwards, when Bulgaria joined the Axis.
		Todorov, who was born in Bulgaria but has long lived in France, allows the participants to speak for themselves, presenting their memoirs, letters and diaries.
		The voices that follow Todorov's concise history allow the players on both sides of this remarkable drama a chance to be heard.
	www.amazon.ca /Fragility-Goodness-Tzvetan-Todorov/dp/0297646702 (1368 words)

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		It therefore appears imperative to create a forum for discussion of the works and thought of Tzvetan Todorov in a manner that would bridge the divides between academic disciplines, considering that Todorov is an outstanding exemplar of what has been achieved in overcoming disciplinary boundaries, and of the potential that still remains for doing so.
		The conference proposes to assess the position and contribution of Tzvetan Todorov's thought to the human sciences and to evaluate the potential of his concept of 'critical humanism' as an alternative to theory.
		TZVETAN TODOROV will give a public lecture in the French Embassy Lecture Series on 26 June 2004 and will participate in a roundtable with the conference participants on 27 June.
	www.see-educoop.net /events/data/455.txt (577 words)

	Stanislaw Lem- Todorov's Fantastic Theory of Literature
		Todorov distinguishes three aspects of the literary work: the verbal, the syntactic and the semantic, making no secret of the fact that these were formerly known as style, composition and theme.
		Todorov, unable to cope with Kafka’s texts by means of his axis, has made a virtue of methodological paralysis, taking his own perplexity out into the deep waters of hermeneutics.
		Todorov, fettered by the immanence of his procedures, has deprived himself of any possibility of recognizing mimicry of values, and accordingly his implicit reader must, by dint of solemn exertions, see to it that the silliest twaddle about spirits sends chills up and down his spine.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/4/lem4art.htm (5933 words)

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		Todorov, the director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris.
		Todorov emigrated to France in 1963 and made his reputation as a literary critic before he decided to use his analytical tools for "something else vitally important," as he put it.
		Todorov, mentioning an old joke that a person has three parts -- a soul, a body and clothes.
	www.virginia.edu /insideuva/textonlyarchive/94-10-21/2.txt (920 words)

	The American University of Paris \| Guest Speakers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Todorov has been a visiting professor at many universities, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and the University of California, Berkeley.
		His honors include 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 is currently a Director of Research at the CNRS in Paris.
	www.aup.fr /news/pastconf/speakers/todorov.htm (115 words)

	Dustan June 1
		Tzvetan Todorov, in his book The Conquest of America, gives a compelling argument about when two distinct civilizations meet and their reaction to each other.
		Todorov's book The Conquest of America is about the clashing of culture that took place between the Mexican and Caribbean Natives and their Spanish invaders.
		Todorov always sees knowledge and communication as important, however, he dislikes the way Cortez uses this knowledge for his own selfish motives, wealth, fame, power, etc. Cortez more or less wished to control 'the other' and make them do his bidding.
	www.msu.edu /user/junedust/todorov.htm (1295 words)

	Todorov Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Tzvetan Todorov assembles and interprets for the first time key evidence from this episode of Bulgarian history,...
		Identifying totalitarianism as the major innovation of the twentieth century, Tzvetan Todorov examines the struggle between this system and democracy and its effects on human life and...
		In Voices from the Gulag, Tzvetan Todorov singles out the experience of one country where the concentration camps were particularly brutal and emblematic of...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Todorov (790 words)

	Todorov, T.: Imperfect Garden: The Legacy of Humanism.
		Through his critical but sympathetic excavation of humanism, Tzvetan Todorov seeks an answer to modernity's fundamental challenge: how to maintain our hard-won liberty without paying too dearly in social ties, common values, and a coherent and responsible sense of self.
		Placing the history of ideas at the service of a quest for moral and political wisdom, Todorov's compelling and no doubt controversial rethinking of humanist ideas testifies to the enduring capacity of those ideas to meditate on--and, if we are fortunate, cultivate--the imperfect garden in which we live.
		It offers a wide-ranging meditation on the open-endedness of human life, on the freedom and the sociability that are its only givens, and on the minimal ethic of autonomy and responsibility to others that they ought to inspire.
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /titles/7253.html (572 words)

	Tzvetan Todorov (1939 - )
		Tzvetan Todorov (born 1939 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian philosopher.
		From what I've read of Todorov, I liked the exposé on the concept of genre, which is a critique of Northrop Frye's concept as expounded in Anatomy of Criticism.
		I wonder if Todorov's concept of genre, which he developed for literature, would be equally valid in the case of film (which I suspect it is), and in the case of music (which I doubt, because most music does not rely on narrativity.) [Jun 2006]
	www.jahsonic.com /TsvetanTodorov.html (324 words)

	Nuestra Cautividad en Babilonia » Tzvetan Todorov
		Todorov se concentra en la historia del descubrimiento de América, la conquista de México y los misioneros que llegan posteriormente; el marco temporal de esta historia es el siglo XVI; y un marco espacial, que aunque no excluya otros lugares, se va a concentrar en la región de México y el Caribe.
		Todorov entiende la concepción europea actual, sin querer decir esto que los europeos no puedan conocer a profundidad, o hacer suya, la “historia” de la conquista de América: Todorov es europeo nacido en Bulgaria y educado bajo la tradición francesa.
		Todorov tiene entre sus explicaciones que Colón era un hombre muy religioso (posiblemente todos los hombres europeos de su época lo eran igualmente), queriendo éste retomar el proyecto de las cruzadas, siendo éste una empresa muy medieval, que de hecho para los tiempos de Colón habría sido descartada.
	babilonia.thinkertothinker.com /?cat=178 (2982 words)

	Cornell News: Tzvetan Todorov lecture. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Todorov also will host a seminar on his lecture and his work on Tuesday, March 25, at 4:30 p.m.
		Todorov has published 21 books, including The Poetics of Prose (1971), The Conquest of America (1982) and Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps (1991).
		"In his early work, Todorov's approach tended to be structuralist, and he was noted for his brilliant analyses of literary texts," said Dominick LaCapra, director of the Society for the Humanities and the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies and professor of history.
	www.news.cornell.edu /releases/March97/ClarkRelease.jkg.html (391 words)

	Harvard University Press: On Human Diversity : Nationalism, Racism, and Exoticism in French Thought by Tzvetan Todorov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Tzvetan Todorov, an internationally admired scholar, aims in this book to salvage the good name of the Enlightenment so that its ideas can once more inspire humane thought and action.
		Since the French were the ideologues of universalism and played a preeminent role in the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas in Europe, Todorov focuses on the French intellectual tradition, analyzing writers ranging from Montaigne through Tocqueville, Michelet, and Renan, to Lévi-Strauss.
		Todorov calls for us to reject this legacy and to strive once again for an acceptance of human diversity, through a "critical humanism" prefigured in the writings of Rousseau and Montesquieu.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/TODHUM.html?show=catalogcopy (338 words)

	Todorov, T.; Denner, A., trans.: The Fragility of Goodness: Why Bulgaria's Jews Survived the Holocaust.
		Tzvetan Todorov assembles and interprets for the first time key evidence from this episode of Bulgarian history, including letters, diaries, government reports, and memoirs--most never before translated into any language.
		The meaning Todorov settles on is this: Once evil is introduced into public view, it spreads easily, whereas goodness is temporary, difficult, rare, and fragile.
		"Tzvetan Todorov is one of the most original thinkers working today in Europe, whose writings range from the conquest of America to the civil war in occupied France.
	pup.princeton.edu /titles/7026.html (535 words)

	Amazon.ca: Imperfect Garden: The Legacy of Humanism: Books: Tzvetan Todorov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		As the reader soon learns from his characterizations, Todorov's allegiance is firmly with the humanists.
		For Todorov, as with the best of the humanists, life in the world is a garden that needs our tending.
		Ultimately, Todorov proposes that humanism is a wager, à la Pascal: we will be no worse off for striving to mend the human condition, but we risk everything if we don't.
	www.amazon.ca /Imperfect-Garden-Humanism-Tzvetan-Todorov/dp/0691010471 (376 words)

	Introduction to Poetics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A clear, concise, and masterly exposition of the structuralist approach to literature, it is one of the key documents of French structuralism.
		All of Todorov's qualities are evident in it: the ability to present complex critical notions simply but without simplification and to use precise terminology without falling into jargon; a willingness to tackle controversial issues without invoking dogma; and a great modesty which, in a programmatic book, allows him to be expository without being preachy.
		Born and educated in Sofia, Bulgaria, Tzvetan Todorov draws upon Slavic as well as French, German, and Anglo-American traditions of literary theory.
	www.upress.umn.edu /Books/T/todorov_poetics.html (149 words)

	The Morals of History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		As he probes the effects of intercultural relationships and the difficulties inherent in the representation of the Other, Todorov describes his own experience as a Bulgarian living in France.
		Addressed to a broad audience, the book will intrigue readers interested in contemporary discussions about the outcome of democracy and the future of late capitalism, the persistence of a logic of conquest and ethnocentrism, and the signs that point to emerging fascisms.
		Tzvetan Todorov is Maître de Recherches at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and has been a visiting professor at various North American universities.
	www.upress.umn.edu /Books/T/todorov_morals.html (228 words)

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