About the book: 2002 / French writer Francois Mauriac is one of the most prominent figures in the literature of the 20th century. A Nobel Prize winner, he created his own special, Mauriacian, type of novel. Continuing the tradition established by O. de Balzac and E. Zola, Mauriac explores the subtlest nuances of human psychology. In the center of the narrative of most of his works are relationships within the family. Life constantly tests Mauriac’s heroes for strength, and few of them pass these tests with honor. “The Road to Nowhere” is a novel about money, or more precisely about a society where everything is determined by it, where it rules marriages and love, and forces friends to betray each other. friend, destroy a person’s soul. It is in this novel that Mauriac, through the mouth of the poet Pierre Costado, declares: “We live in a world where the essence of everything is money».