Column collapse. Dryon M.

Maurice Druon, the reader, first of all, knows from the saga “Cursed Kings”, which revealed the gloomy secrets of the Middle Ages, and the book “Preight of this world”, telling about the backstage of modern society, about the sunset of the dynasty of financiers and industrialists. This novel-trilogy is the most significant work of the Druion.

The second novel of the cycle is called “The collapse of the pillars”: powerful politicians, financial gates, aristocrats and nouveau riches-all once age. The heroes of the Roman Druon are overtaken by diseases and physical ailments. Their children, on the contrary, enter into force, their grandchildren are growing up, but the old people with their amazing will to life, experience and tenacious are trying to influence the new generation, proving that it is early to write off from the account. But who will be able to stay afloat in the sea of ​​violent events that overtook Europe in the thirties of the XX century?..