'L'Extase matérielle' is an essay written by French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 author and Nobel laureate

Nobel Prize in Literature

Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...

 J. M. G. Le Clézio. The book's title means Material Ecstasy in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

. 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)

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

Terra Amata

Terra Amata is an archeological site in open air located on the slopes of Mount Boron in Nice, at a level 26 meters above the current sea level of the Mediterranean. It was discovered and excavated in 1966 by Henry de Lumley...

. Le Clezio expresses his fondness for small things in these essays.

Themes in L'extase materielle

• Le Clézio meditates about his bedroom
• Le Clézio writes about the woman
  • (and about the woman's body)
• Le Clézio writes of love,
  • (even of a fly or a spider)
• Le Clézio discourses on writing
• Le Clézio`writes about death
• Le Clézio gives some ideas of what he thinks "an absolute" (of anything) could be