Сильные мира сего

Maurice Druon, a representative of the generation that formed during the Second World War and after it, occupies a prominent place in modern French literature. In addition to the trilogy novel, the first part of which is the book "The Powerful Ones", he wrote the well-known series of historical novels "Cursed Kings", a number of other prose works, several plays, a collection of short stories, an essay. The books of this writer attract attention with humanistic ideas, outstanding artistic skill, the truthfulness of the depiction of historical events, the modern life of bourgeois society, and amusingness.