The Small Pleasures of Life

[La première gorgée de bière et autres plaisirs minuscules]
Year: 
1997
Type: 
Public: 
Publisher: 
W&N
Year of publication: 
2018
Pages: 
96
Moral assessment: 
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality: 
Recommendable: 
Transmits values: 
Sexual content: 
Violent content: 
Vulgar or obscene language: 
Ideas that contradict Church teaching: 
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators

The author describes thirty-four brief sequences on common situations of daily life which go by unnoticed, but which give us those little pleasures of life accessible to almost everyone. The simple yet careful style, with touches of humour and irony, sets a charming and fleeting mood, uncommon to daily behaviour. They are pages filled with optimism, helping the reader to discover the joys of life in small things and situations that appear mundane.