Y a d’la joie unfolds over two days, during which Paul observes his surroundings and lets his thoughts, memories, and the encounters that punctuate his daily life rise to the surface. The book moves in fragments: a piano exercise, a walk through the neighbourhood, a stop at a café, a metro ride, a childhood memory.
Along the way, we find the passage of time, the relationship to creation, to parents no longer here, to accumulated objects, to music, to nature. The news of the world is present, but beneath that background noise, what matters are the small gestures, the routines, the moments of attention that make it possible to keep going.
