TZVETAN TODOROV TO LECTURE AT U.VA.

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 4 -- Tzvetan Todorov, one of the
most provocative and influential literary critics and political
thinkers of our time, will visit the University of Virginia Oct.
10-15 to give a series of lectures titled "The Social Passions."
The lectures are sponsored by the Commonwealth Center for Literary
and Cultural Change and will take place in Newcomb Hall.
	Todorov, the director of research at the Centre National de
la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, has written more than 10 books
of criticism, which have been translated into numerous languages, as
well as many books and essays on political and social thought.
	His master work, published in France in 1989 as "Nous et les
Autres," was translated into English last year under the title "On
Human Diversity:  Nationalism, Racism and Exoticism in French
Thought."
	Todorov's series on "The Social Passions" will include:
	o "Living Alone Together," South Meeting Room of Newcomb
Hall, Wednesday, Oct. 	12, 3 p.m.
	o "Modes of Recognition," South Meeting Room of Newcomb
Hall, Thursday, Oct. 13,
	3 p.m. 
	o Informal Discussion, Visitors' Lounge of Newcomb Hall,
Friday, Oct. 14, 10 a.m.
	For more information, call the Commonwealth Center for
Literary and Cultural Change at (804) 982-5586.

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Oct. 3, 1994