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Original title L'Extase matérielle Publication date 1967 ISBN 978-2-07-032745-4 Genre Essay OCLC 150450422 | 3.7/5 Babelio Language French Pages 221 Originally published 1967 Page count 221 Country France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher Gallimard, Paris and Imprint from colophon by Mayenne : Impr. Floch, 1993. Similar J M G Le Clézio books, Other books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
'L'Extase matérielle' is an essay written by French Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio. The book's title means Material Ecstasy in English. This essay may be advising that we should pay the utmost attention to what there is around us, not to what there might be or ought to be. According to a review of 'L'Extase matérielle' the reasoning behind the essay is to accept that "what there is is all there is"(and to demand more is ludicrous)
Contents
Writing style
This essay consists of personal deliberations, discursively written, which are (probably) intended more to provoke his readers than to comfort them. Le Clézio seems to have been motivated to write this essay not just taking ideas from other writers, but also to explain his own research and also to relate his very own perspective on life. The essay is emotionally written.
Principles
This is a collection of essays which explicitly theorize many of the principles Le Clézio himself wrote in Terra Amata. Le Clezio expresses his fondness for small things in these essays.