'L'Extase matérielle' is an essay written by French Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio.

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)[1] 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.

[2] 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.