"Little Things" semi-autobiographically describes the author's experience of having to make a living in adolescence because of family decline, and depicts the cold relationship between people in capitalist society with a playful and humorous style. This novel is the masterpiece of Dude, which embodies the author's artistic style of no malicious irony and implicit sadness, that is, the so-called tearful smile. Therefore, Dude is known as Dickens of France.

"Little Things" is a semi-autobiographical work, which is mainly based on the first-person self-report of the protagonist and also inserted the third person of the narrator.