Bruno Viard is the author of 13 monographs devoted to 19th-, 20th– and 21st –century literature and culture. He is specializing in the anthropological approach to literature, European Romanticism, as well as 19th-century socialism and republicanism. Among authors commented by Bruno Viard are: Michel Houellebecq and Michel de Montaigne, Marcel Proust and Marcel Mauss, Rousseau, Musset, Balzac, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust and Littell.