Stephanie Corinna Biy (she signed her books S. Corinna Biy) is a classic of Swiss French-language literature of the 20th century, the author of many poetry collections and prose works - novels, short stories, short stories. Corinna Biy is a true and widely recognized master " small forms." In her stories she glorifies the love, often bitter, tragic, the joys and misfortunes of her humble, hardworking fellow countrymen, whose lives she knew very well and described with talent, like a keen observer and a subtle psychologist. Some of these works, without exaggeration, reach the heights of Maupassant’s “peasant” stories. But Corinna Bey also became famous as the author of fantastic stories “in the spirit of the Baroque” - the ones that make up her collection “The Oval Salon” are especially good. They are distinguished by an impeccable sense of style, refined, slightly archaic language and a wonderful flight of imagination of the author, captivating the reader into the mysterious world of the unknown.