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Dominique Viart
 
Biography

Literary critic and professor of French literature at the University of Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3, founder of the Contemporary Writing series (Ecritures contemporaines) at Editions des Lettres modernes - Minard, Dominique Viart oversees the Human Sciences Review (Revue des Sciences Humaines) and serves on the editorial boards for the annual bilingual review Beckett Today (Amsterdam/Atlanta), the journals Sites and Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (University of Connecticut), and Novel 20/50 (Roman 20-50) from the University of Lille.
A selected bibliography
 
Dominique Viart primary publications include:
    - Second Writing: The Poetic Practices of Jacques Dupin (L'Ecriture seconde, pratique poétique de Jacques Dupin, Galilée, 1982).
    - The Silent Injunction (L'Injonction silencieuse, La Table ronde, 1995).
    - An Unquiet Memory: An Essay on Claude Simon (Une mémoire inquiète, PUF, 1997).
    - The French Novel in the 20th Century (Le Roman français au XXe siècle, Hachette, 1999).

With Michel Braudeau, Lakis Proguidis, and Jean-Pierre Salgas:
    - The Contemporary French Novel (Le Roman français contemporain, ADPF, 2002).

With Bruno Vercier:
    - French Literature Today: Heritage, Modernity, Mutations (La Littérature française au présent, Héritage, Modernité, Mutation, Bordas, 2005).

He is also the author of a 2004 book-length study, from Gallimard, of Pierre Michon's Les Vies minuscules. The latter will be published in English this fall as Lives Under Glass, in a translation by Richard Howard from Archipelago Press.
 
 
 
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