Marcel Aymé (1902–1967) is a brilliant French prose writer, author of 17 novels and numerous short stories. In his work, Aymé uses a rich palette of expressive means—satire and humor, vicious grotesque, and psychological insight. In his books, reality and paradoxical fantasticality combine in a strange way. The novel “Vouivre” tells of a young man and the residents of a small French village, whose ordinary existence is joined by a fairy, beautiful ruler of snakes—Vouivre.