It’s easy to play parallel lives and say Alexander the Great He started his journey at that age Alfonso Goizueta was chosen as planet finalistbut the distances are as large as the ocean, and the 23-year-old young writer, whom no one has ever known before, has a much more applied and formal appearance than the statues of the Greek strategist that have come down to us. The author was the big surprise of Planet night. His reward increased from zero to 1,000 euros – more precisely, the reward amount of 200.00 euros – because his publications so far, consisting of two articles and a novel, were self-published and Fernando Savater’In, Juan Benet, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Francisco Umbral and Manuel Vilas have achieved this in the past.
Macedonia’The unfortunate king of s is the main hero of this incident. ‘blood of the father’. He says that the book in which he describes his hero is a book. adventure novel because there are “wars, palace intrigues and murders” but also, and above all, there is a psychological work in which the hero fantasizes and worries about what is going on in his head. “Alejandro’I like to imagine that, in addition to being a soldier and a politician, he was also a boy who lay in bed at night thinking about the issues of the day.” So the thrust of history is to ask new questions about him: “Historians say he wanted to continue his unstoppable path of conquest. always head eastbut I saw it differently. Ask myself why Macedonia?’I asked him if I didn’t want to return. “I don’t believe the answer is ambition, there must be something deeper, perhaps fear of returning home.”
goizueta’Among his readings on the subject are biographies. Robin Lane Fox and Brian Bosworth but also of course Plutarch’I too. “I particularly like Anglo-Saxon history popularizers because they focus on thinking rather than mere accumulation of data.” And this King’s College London’He says it in the voice of a good student.