Novels by Marcel Ayme are all filled with a great taste for life, mixed with a crude knowledge of the human heart. Treating with humour and tenderness the big principles and the little failures that make a man, Ayme is famous for the honesty of his books. This is true even for those stories that escape from reality to open our daily life on the possibility of... well, of whatever you may think of, as long as men are still men.
The Green Mare is one of its masterworks: a simple story in a French village, and the secrets of sex are described from a political viewpoint, unless it is the opposite.