#!/usr/bin/python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from typing import List


def find_max(L: List[int]) -> int:
    if len(L) == 1:
        return L[0]
    v1 = L[0]
    v2 = find_max(L[1:])
    if v1 > v2:
        return v1
    else:
        return v2


print(find_max([11, 23, 58, 31, 56, 77, 43, 12, 65, 19]))