Viala, Alain

A specialist in French literature and theater of the era of classicism , developed on this material the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu . The author of works on the formation of the writer's profession, literary culture, the place of literature in the education system.

He taught at the University of Paris III New Sorbonne (currently a retired professor), at the University of Oxford , where he headed the Department of French Literature, as well as at the University of Liege , the University of Laval in Quebec , Emory University in Atlanta, the University of Chicago, and Tel Aviv University and etc.

• Faire / Lire , Paris, Éditions Didier, 1978 (co-authored)
• Naissance de l'écrivain , Paris, Éditions de Minuit, 1985.
• Les Institutions littéraires en France au XVIIe siècle , Lille, ART, 1985.
• L'Esthétique galante , Paris, Société des Littératures classiques, 1990.
• Racine La stratégie du caméléon , Paris, Seghers, 1990.
• Approches de la réception , Paris, PUF, 1993.
• Le Théâtre en France , Paris, PUF, 1996.
• De la publication , Paris: Fayard, 2002 (co-authored)
• Le Dictionnaire du littéraire , Paris, PUF, 2002 (compiled, co-authored; 2nd ed. - 2004)
• L'Enseignement littéraire , Paris, PUF, 2005.
• Lettre à Rousseau sur l'intérêt littéraire , Paris, PUF, 2005.
• Sociologie de la littérature , Paris, PUF, 2006 (co-authored)
• La France galante. Histoire d'une catégorie culturelle , Paris, PUF, 2008.
• La culture littéraire , Paris, PUF, 2009
• Le théâtre , Paris, PUF, 2011 (co-authored).

• The Birth of a Writer: The Sociology of Literature of the Classical Age // New Literary Review , 1997, No. 25, pp. 7-23
• Academies in the French Literary Life of the 17th Century

• Biography and bibliography on the EHESS website (fr.)
• Oxford University website