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Tzvetan Todorov during an interview at the Washington Square Hotel in New York in April 2001.
Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times
Tzvetan Todorov
Died on February 7, 2017 at age 77
Mr. Todorov was a Bulgarian-French literary theorist and historian of ideas whose concerns in dozens of books ranged from fantasy in fiction to the moral consequences of colonialism, fanaticism and the Holocaust.
Notable Deaths 2017
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