todorov published a total of 39 books, including "the poetics of prose" (1971), "introduction to poetics" (1981), "" (1982), "mikhail bakhtin: the dialogical principle" (1984), "facing the extreme: moral life in the concentration camps" (1991), "on human diversity" (1993), "a french tragedy: scenes of civil war, summer 1944" (1994), "voices from the gulag: life and death in communist bulgaria" (1999), "hope and memory" (2000), "imperfect garden: the legacy of humanism" (2002), "in defence of the enlightenment" (2009), "memory as a remedy for evil" (2010), "the totalitarian experience" (2011), "the inner enemies of democracy" (2014) and "insoumis" (2015). todorov's historical interests have focused on such crucial issues as the conquest of the americas and the nazi and stalinist concentration camps.