Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878 - 1947) was the most prominent writer of French-speaking Switzerland. A proponent of poetic realism, a poet of Lake Geneva and the snow-capped Alps, he became a mysterious storyteller striving to compose the perfect book. His novels build upon one another, forming an endless, multi-layered epic.
The novel "The Reign of the Evil Spirit" opens a large cycle of mystical works based on biblical stories, folk tales, legends, and myths of Swiss villages and highland hamlets.