Tzvetan Todorov, a French intellectual of Bulgarian origin died at the age of 77 in Paris.
Tzvetan Todorov was born in Sofia in 1939. He graduated philology in 1963 in Bulgaria and later emigrated to Paris, where in 1966 he took a PhD in “Literature and Meaning” under Roland Barthes. As of 1987 he headed the Centre for the Study for Arts and Languages at the National Centre for Scientific Research.
Tzvetan Todorov is known most of all as a literary critic and theoretician and his philosophical thoughts on self-determination have played a key role in anthropology and sociology. His books, written in French, have been translated into Bulgarian since 1984. His last visit to Bulgaria took place in September 2014 at the invitation of the French Cultural Institute where he presented his book The Imperfect Garden. On 1 March this year Tzvetan Todorov would have turned 78.
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