From his earliest publications on literary theory in the mid 1960s, to his moral enquiries into identity, responsibility, and ethics in his more-recent historical studies, Tzvetan Todorov has established himself as one of the foremost contemporary European literary and cultural theorists. While the fields of literary criticism and cultural history continue to relax their boundaries, thereby increasingly accommodating and influencing each other, Todorov ranks among the finest of writers whose works have moved easily between literary theory and its application in critical readings of important historical narratives. When Todorov was named a Clark Fellow at Cornell University in March 1997, the eminent historian Dominick LaCapra was quoted in a Cornell press release as remarking "In his early work, Todorov's approach tended to be structuralist, and he was noted for his brilliant analyses of literary texts. More recently, he has become interested in historical and moral problems, notably including ethics...