Tzvetan Todorov and Literature Crisis

Document Type : Critical Book Review

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Assistant Professor of French Language and Literature Department, Bu Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran.

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In the first two decades of Twenty First Century, some French thinkers wrote their books about contemporary literature crisis and literary researches. One of them which is named Literature in Peril [Literature in danger] by Tzvetan Todorov, published by Flammarion 2007. The theme of the book is a concerning look towards investigating the application and position of literature from the eighteenth century onwards. This article first tries to introduce the book and to present a summary of its various parts, then to analyze the writer’s judgment and claims along with his flaws.

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تودوروف تودوروف، تزوتان (1387). مفهوم ادبیات و چند جستار دیگر. کتایون شهپرراد. تهران: قطره.
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Todorov, Tzvetan (1987). La Notion de la littérature et autres essais, Paris: Seuil.
Todorov, Tzvetan (2007). La Littérature en péril, collection Café Voltaire, Paris: Flammarion.
Book Review Journal of Foreign Languages
Volume 1, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
September 2018
Pages 5-10

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