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Alejandro Gándara and Gustavo Martín Garzo in conversation

The Unhurried Gaze of the Classics

Segovia 2026, 

Two giants of Spanish literature, Alejandro Gándara and Gustavo Martín Garzo, advocate distancing themselves from the present and its technological disruption characterized by immediacy, and returning to the Greek classics and the Bible to rest their gaze. Both, through their respective works—especially their most recent ones—choose to draw from ancient sources to reposition the world through a beauty that lessens fear and anxiety. In short, to strengthen human intelligence in the face of other, always artificial, intelligences.

At the end of the event, the authors will sign copies of their books

Event in Spanish