Enrique Congrains Martin

 

Enrique Congrains Martin

Picture 1957

 

 

 

 

 

1932 - Cochabamba, July 6, 2009)1 was a Peruvian writer and publisher belonging to the so-called generation of the 50, of which Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Manuel Scorza, Gustavo Valcárcel, among others, are also part.

Personal information

 

 

 

 

Birth name Henry Congrains Martin

 

Born July 4,

 

Lima, Peru

 

Passed away July 6,

 

(77 years old)

 

Cochabamba, Bolivia

 

Cause of death cardiorespiratory arrest

 

Peruvian nationality

 

Mother tongue Spanish

 

Family

 

Spouse Mary Emma Lion Cabada

 

Sons Alfred Congrains

 

Professional information

 

Occupation Writer, editor

 

Movement Generation of the 50th

 

Literary language Spanish

Novelist

 

 Storyteller

 

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1932 - Cochabamba, July 6, 2009)1 was a Peruvian writer and editor belonging to the so-called generation of 50, of which Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Manuel Scorza, Gustavo Valcárcel, among others, are also part.

Biography

 

He was born in Lima, into a middle-class family that took care to give him a careful education. His parents, of French descent, were Víctor Elías Congrains Agüero and Henrietta Martín.

 

 

 

He completed his primary studies at Antonio Raimondi, La Inmaculada and Maristas de San Isidro and continued his secondary studies at Maristas.

 

 

 

His wife was María Emma León Cabada.

 

 

 

In the literary field he is one of the first narrators to express in his work his interest in human, social and ethical problems that afflict the population of marginal urban neighborhoods.

 

 

 

He died on July 6, 2009 in Cochabamba, Bolivia, where he had resided for several years.2

 

 

 

Storyteller

 

In 1954 he published the book of short stories Lima, Hora Zero, inaugurating urban realism in Peru, which his generation colleagues would later explore, as would later authors, such as Oswaldo Reynoso. This book describes the marginality of the Lima neighborhoods, on which society's gaze fell in that decade, given the importance of the Andean migratory wave towards the capital of Peru at that time.

 

 

 

The following year he published his second book, the collection of Kikuyo stories, which was circulated in a minority.

 

 

 

Both books were edited by the same author, who was also in charge of their distribution, which he did personally, selling the copies, even in installments, to his readers.3

 

 

 

Novelist

 

Not one, but many deaths

 

In 1957, living in Buenos Aires, he self-published his novel !No una sino muchas !muertes- Not one, but many deaths.

In 1957, living in Buenos Aires, he self-published his novel Not one but many deaths (Buenos Aires: Embajada Cultural Peruana),4 in which he recounts, having a teenager from the outskirts of Lima as the protagonist, the problems of extreme marginalization. with singular acuity and precision in the descriptions.

 

 

 

This work, central to 20th-century Peruvian literature, presents one of the most striking female characters in its history.5

 

 

 

The novel was published several times, in different countries. The first edition in Buenos Aires was followed by a Uruguayan one (Montevideo: Alfa, 1967), as well as editions in Lima, both by Peisa (1974, 1988) and by Populibros. Vargas Llosa prefaced the 1975 edition of Planeta de España, describing the work as a "wild novel."6​3​

 

 

 

It was made into a film in 1983 by Francisco Lombardi, under the title Maruja in Hell.

 

 

 

Final works

 

Towards the end of his life and after fifty years of Not one, but many deaths, he published the novels The narrator of stories (dedicated to Vargas Llosa)3 and 999 words for planet Earth, works that denote, after so many decades of literary silence, a freer style in technique and with themes under the interest in the fantastic and the futuristic.

 

 

 

Author of manuals and editorial work

 

He was the author of texts such as This is how intelligence is developed or This is how it is studied.

 

 

 

In Colombia, where he lived for many years, he organized the Latin American Center for Intellectual Training. There he carried out editing and marketing tasks with his own company Forja in which he published, for example: Así se Desarrollo la salud (3 volumes) 1975; This is how you study (1978); The wonders of Colombia: surprising and little known (4 volumes), 1979; Black file (4 volumes), 1984; The lightning of history (3 volumes), 1986; Classic and modern French narrative (1986); Famous and resounding phrases (1989); Wise and lucid letters (1989). He also published the series of literary anthologies: Anthology of the Classic and Modern American Short Story (1980); Anthology of the classic Russian story (1980); and the series The Colossi of Humanity composed of: Life and work of scientists and inventors (1983); Life and work of writers and poets (1983); Life and work of politicians and rulers (1983); Life and work of famous Colombians (1985); Life and work of philosophers and thinkers (1985); Life and work of sailors and explorers (1985); Life and work of warriors and soldiers (1987); Life and work of musicians and composers (1987); Life and work of famous women (1989); Life and work of painters and sculptors (1990); Life and work of kings and emperors (1990).

 

 

 

At the Ateneo de Caracas he taught "The course on mental calculation and concentration", a system of intellectual exercise that, through a novel method of performing mathematical operations, helped develop concentration, memory, agility and inventiveness.

 

 

 

Book about Not One, But Many Deaths (1957)

 

In 1974, the German critic Wolfgang A. Luchting published the study Woman or the Revolution. Analysis of "Not one, but many deaths" by Enrique Congrains. The book can be consulted at the following link: https://es.scribd.com/document/567630226/La-Mujer-o-La-Revolucion-Analisis-de-No-Una-Sino-Muchas-Muertes-Wolfgang-Luchting -PDF

More importantwoorks

 

 

 

"Black Night" (1948). Story published on June 27, 1948 in the newspaper La Crónica. Access: https://www.academia.edu/50550260/Enrique_Congrains_Noche_negra_2021_

 

Lima, zero hour (stories, 1954, which includes the story "The boy next to the sky")

 

The Boy Next to Heaven (Story, 1954)

 

Kikuyu (stories, 1995)

 

Sunday in a mat cage (story included in Peruvian Stories. Complete and updated anthology of the story in Peru. Buenos Aires: Peruvian Cultural Embassy, 1957). Consult: https://es.scribd.com/document/573284186/Domingo-en-La-Jaula-de-Estera-Enrique-Congrains-PDF

 

Not one, but many deaths (novel, 1957)

 

The Storyteller (novel, 2008)

 

words for planet Earth (novel, 2009)

 

Bibliography on Enrique Congrains

 

In 2021, the Peruvian Literary Network carried out a bibliographical investigation that compiled all the criticism surrounding the narrative of Enrique Congrains.

 

With affection,

 

 

Ruben

 

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Franz Beckenbauer

 

Franz Beckenbauer

 

Farewell Franz Beckenbauer, the last of football’s immortals

The German legend has died at the age of 78, leaving behind a unique legacy – one that became complicated in his later years

Source:The independent

London

Miguel Delaney

Chief football writer

Franz Beckenbauer really was one of those players who could talk with his feet, although there were some during his later life who felt his legacy would have been grander if he restricted himself to that.

 

No one was considering such controversies when the German great surged forward from defence in the manner that became his signature; there was only the purity of the play. One of his esteemed contemporaries, Gerd Muller, was meanwhile only considering what Beckenbauer wanted next. He would tell him with the type of pass played. If it was sharp, it meant Muller had to do something with it himself. If it was soft, it meant Beckenbauer wanted it back for the trademark one-two move that dictated and decided so many big matches.

 

It was the constant threat of this that settled one of the biggest ever West Germany-England matches, which was a rematch of the 1966 World Cup final that came four years later in the quarter-final. Beckenbauer’s surges wreaked havoc and inspired a 3-2 comeback from 2-0 down. The Germans went on from there and won a historic semi-final against Italy, considered the greatest game ever played, to become one of the greatest ever international sides. Led by Beckenbauer, that West Germany were the first to hold the European Championship and World Cup at the same time, as they did across 1972 and 1974.

 

There was for a time a sense of frustration about that within England, since it had been Sir Alf Ramsey’s surprising decision to take off Sir Bobby Charlton at 2-0 in 1970 that freed the space for Beckenbauer. The two were so often intertwined internationally, because of both their positions and their profiles in their teams.

 

Franz Beckenbauer is a member of exclusive World Cup-winning club

It is almost sadly fitting that they have passed so close together, but it also reflects one of the more resonant meanings of Beckenbauer’s death at 78. An era has really passed, too. Der Kaiser, as he became known for the regal elegance of his play, was considered one of football’s “immortals”. This was an elevated group of players who reached their prime during the classic television age between the 1950s and late 1980s that marked the first true internationalisation of the game. It is little coincidence that to shine in this new era of technicolour was also to colour the game’s formative collective consciousness. It was not just how they triumphed, but that they transformed and transcended the game.

 

Beckenbauer was an innovative defender, whose role transformed with time

 

Those that did it most, from the global perspective of an audience watching World Cups and European Cup finals, were probably Pele, Diego Maradona, Johan Cruyff, Alfredo Di Stefano, Ferenc Puskas, George Best and Beckenbauer. Others of course have a claim to that, including Charlton.

 

The more profound reason for sadness here is that all of these are undisputed and, with Beckenbauer’s passing, all are now gone. That is something that should be reflected on. That sadness is all the more acute because of the glory, and the happiness they created for their supporters.

 

Beckenbauer’s very success even played into why both of his main teams, West Germany and Bayern Munich, became two of the most disliked but feared in the game. He often combined immense success with both.

 

Beckenbauer is one of a select group of players to have won both the European Cup and World Cup in the same year. That annus mirabilis of 1974 came right at the centre of West Germany’s run of international glory and Bayern’s historic run of three European Cups in a row. The latter is a feat that has still only been managed by four different club sides, and was not replicated for 42 years after Beckenbauer’s team completed it in 1976. It remains a gold standard in club football.

 

<pBeckenbauer is one of just three figures to have won the World Cup as a player and coach .

Beckenbauer is one of just three figures to have won the World Cup as a player and coach

 

 

Such feats didn’t quite mean Beckenbauer was ever considered the equal of Pele or Maradona, but his on-pitch legacy is arguably deeper. At a time when “Total Football” was altering the parameters of how the game was played, and how it did not need to be so fixed, the German was an immense influence on this. He was a notional defender who constantly went forward. This was almost never done, at least in such a high-profile way, and it transformed the very space of the pitch.

 

Beckenbauer gave the game the “libero”, in its most widely understood sense. It freed him to win virtually every major trophy as a player. He remains the only defender to win the Ballon D’Or twice, if he can even be called a defender.

 

And that was only one part of his career.

 

He later became just the second of three football figures to win the World Cup as a player and a manager. There was another historical echo in how the first of those, Brazil’s Mario Zagallo, died at the weekend. It is now only Didier Deschamps left.

 

As regards the discussion Beckenbauer leaves behind, it was always much more complicated than just celebrating his football greatness. There was plenty of controversy during his career, and biographer Uli Hesse described a “love-hate relationship” that Germany had with “its greatest ever footballer”. Even as early as the 1970s, coverage of his shock move to the North American Soccer League brought accusations that he was simply running from many issues, including the tax authorities and a disintegrating marriage.

 

Beckenbauer in Berlin, ahead of the 2006 Fifa World Cup in Germany

 

This all reached a nadir in the last two decades of his life. If Beckenbauer came to define an era of how the game was played, he also came to define how it was governed. As a member of Fifa’s ExCo responsible for voting for the hosting of the World Cup, he ended up facing separate investigations over the immensely controversial bid for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups as well as his role in Germany’s pitch for 2006. The global body’s investigatory chamber concluded in 2016 that Beckenbauer had broken the organisation’s rules on bribery and corruption for 2006, but the ethics committee ruled the charges were time-barred. He had already stood down, denying wrongdoing.

 

The one-twos and surges into other areas of the pitch now almost symbolise how the lines were blurred, how there was always another side. Those moments on the pitch will still dictate most of the discussion now he has passed, though. With Beckenbauer, an entire era of the game has gone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With affection,

Ruben

            

Eduardo de Habich

 

Eduardo de Habich

Source: Inside

The legacy of Eduardo de Habich

The Polish engineer, founder of the UNI, was committed to training students to build the country and confront the exploitation of its resources.

 

Eduardo Habich

Published: Monday, August 29, 2022

In December 1869, after a long boat trip for a month, the Polish engineer and mathematician Eduardo de Habich arrived at the port of Callao. He was 34 years old. At that time, Peru was still experiencing the prosperity of guano exploitation and the Government was looking in Europe for engineers who wanted to come to the country and join in the construction of public works.

 

The contract signed by De Habich with the country indicated that he had to remain in Peru for at least three years and that he would be in charge of the creation of an engineering school if the Government decided. In the end he stayed to live for 40 years, like any other Peruvian; He raised a family, and the school (today the National University of Engineering) was his great legacy.

 

Roots and arrival

Eduardo de Habich was born in 1835 in Warsaw, into a family of noble lineage. He had military training and served in the Russian army in the Crimean War, but later joined separatist groups seeking independence from Poland. His life took a different path in Paris, where in the early sixties he studied at the School of Bridges and Causeways and dedicated himself to various academic activities, such as being director of the Polish Higher School, founded by migrants.

 

In Peru, his first commissions were to carry out irrigation studies and, later, he was assigned to repair work on the La Oroya railway. In 1972, he also joined a commission to draft the new regulations for the State Corps of Engineers with the intention of making the country more technical. Until then, only those who had completed professional studies could have the degree of engineer, and since there was no specialized school in Peru, the majority of Peruvians with experience in that field could only aspire to be assistants to foreign engineers.

 

Talent school

Eduardo de Habich was convinced that the country needed to train its own engineers for better exploitation of its natural resources. Manuel Pardo's government sent him to Europe to convince teachers, obtain materials and design programs for the future school. Finally, on March 18, 1876, the Special School of Civil and Mining Constructions was founded in Lima, with De Habich as its first director. Although he started with these two specialties, the intention was to expand it to other careers, in accordance with the demands of the industry and the needs of the country.

 

The teaching had an emphasis on practice with visits to mining centers and construction sites. In addition, excursions were carried out to learn about the reality of the country and the means of production. The horizon for future Peruvian engineers was great because of how much had to be done. After three years in the classrooms they could obtain their degree.

 

Illustrious collaborator

During the conflict with Chile, the school—which occupied the premises of the Casona de San Marcos—was taken over. Other temporary spaces were found to continue teaching classes and when the war ended, its reconstruction began.

 

In the same way, the country had to be rebuilt and Eduardo de Habich was called to collaborate with various authorities. His technical capacity for studies on roads, irrigation, urban planning, railways, lighting, among others, laid the foundations for 20th century Peru.

 

Until his death (October 31, 1909), Eduardo de Habich remained director of the School of Engineers. His memory continues to be present in generations of students trained to transform the country. Edward Jan Habich (Spanish: Eduardo de Habich) (31 January 1835, Warsaw – 31 October 1909, Lima, Peru) was a Polish engineer and mathematician.[1] In 1876, he founded the National University of Engineering (Spanish: Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería), a renowned engineering school in Lima, Peru.[2] He was a member of the Peruvian Geographic Society and an Honorary Citizen of Peru. In his native Poland he took part in the January Uprising against the Russian Empire in 1863.

 

Burial

Edward Jan Habich is buried at the Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro, Lima, Peru.

Monument oh Habish

Pinceladas de Lima

Avenue De Habish Lima Peru

Mural Paint of Habish at UNI

With affection,

Ruben

 

 

 

Mario Zagallo

 

Mario Zagallo

Brazil legend Mario Zagallo, ‘the accidental footballer’, dies aged 92

Zagallo won four World Cups as either a player or coach in a storied football career

Source: THE   INDEPENDEN London

 

Pedro Fonseca

Andrew Downie

Zagallo won four World Cups as either a player or coach in a storied football career

Mario Zagallo coached the 1970 Brazil World Cup squad that featured greats such as Pele, Jairzinho, Rivellino and Tostao

Mario Zagallo, who won four football World Cups for Brazil as either player or coach, including the 1970 side considered by many to be the best ever, has died, according to a post on his official Instagram account on Saturday. He was 92.

 

A tough and talented left-winger, Zagallo played in the team that won Brazil’s first World Cup in 1958 and kept his place in the side that retained the title four years later.

 

In 1970, he coached a Brazil squad that featured all-time greats such as Pele, Jairzinho, Rivellino and Tostao – one that many consider the greatest national team ever to play the game. They won Brazil’s third World Cup in Mexico.

 

That made Zagallo the first person in the sport to win a World Cup as both a player and a manager.

 

Later, he was assistant coach to Carlos Alberto Parreira when Brazil won their fourth title in 1994 in the United States.

 

His Brazilian fans loved him for his idiosyncratic personality and unapologetic nationalism. He liked to say he was born with victory at his side and was rarely shy to challenge those who said his teams were too defensive.

 

One of his most famous outbursts came after Brazil won the Copa America in Bolivia in 1997. His team were unfancied but when the final whistle went, an emotional Zagallo, his face red thanks to the rarified air of La Paz, screamed into the television cameras: “You’re going to have to put up with me!”

 

<p>Nicknamed the ‘Old Wolf’, Zagallo was a successful coach of Brazil as well as a World Cup-winning player </p>

Nicknamed the ‘Old Wolf’, Zagallo was a successful coach of Brazil as well as a World Cup-winning player

 

(AFP via Getty)

The phrase is still frequently repeated by Brazilians in all walks of life celebrating vindication.

 

Zagallo was also known for being highly superstitious and believed the number 13 brought him luck. He liked to coin phrases that contained 13 letters, he got married on the 13th of the month, and once even joked he would retire from the game at 13:00 on 13 July 2013.

 

The accidental footballer

 

Nicknamed the “Old Wolf”, Mario Jorge Lobo Zagallo was born on 9 August 1931, in Maceio on Brazil’s impoverished northeast coast. His family moved to Rio de Janeiro before his first birthday and it was there that he fell in love with football.

 

His first dream was to be an airline pilot but he was forced to abandon that due to poor eyesight. Instead, he studied accountancy and played soccer in his spare time with local side America – then one of the biggest clubs in the city.

 

“My father didn’t want me to be a football player, he wouldn’t let me,” Zagallo said in an interview published by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF). “Back then it wasn’t a profession that was respected, society didn’t look kindly on it... That’s why I say football came into my life by accident.”

 

Zagallo started as a left midfielder, wearing the No 10 shirt, which back then, before Pele, had not yet assumed the significance it has today. But intuition told him he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

 

“I saw it would be hard to get into the Brazil side wearing the No 10 shirt as there were lots of great players in that position,” he said. “So I moved from left midfield to left wing.”

 

A tough and talented left-winger, Zagallo (centre) won the 1958 and 1962 World Cups as a player.

 

He also moved from America to Flamengo, where he won three Carioca state championship medals. The latter half of his career was spent at city rivals Botafogo, where he won two more state titles.

 

His first World Cup came in Sweden in 1958, where he started all six matches and played alongside Garrincha and Pele, who was then just 17.

 

“I was 27 and Pele was 17,” he said. “That’s why I say that I never played with him, but that he played with me.”

 

Four years later in Chile he was champion again, but he only guaranteed his place after making some tactical alterations. Zagallo would hang back to help mark the rival full-back and when his side won the ball he would roar up the wing. It was unusual for forwards to help in defence and he is credited with changing the way wingers played the game.

 

As a coach, Zagallo led a string of Brazilian clubs, but he made his mark when he was drafted in to replace the controversial Joao Saldanha as Brazil coach just months before the 1970 Mexico World Cup.

 

Brazil’s form had been erratic and they were not fancied, but Zagallo pulled the star-studded team together, capping a tremendous showing with a memorable 4-1 triumph over Italy in the final.

 

Zagallo was a last-minute appointment as Brazil coach ahead of the 1970 World Cup but led a star-studded team including Pele to glory.

Zagallo (right) was a last-minute appointment as Brazil coach ahead of the 1970 World Cup but led a star-studded team including Pele  to glory

 

 

Zagallo stayed on until 1974, taking Brazil to fourth place in West Germany, but it was a disappointing performance that was followed by spells managing clubs back home and national sides in the Middle East.

 

He was an assistant to Parreira in 1994, when Brazil won their fourth title, and in 2006, when they were knocked out in the quarter-finals. And he was in charge in 1998 when Brazil lost 3-0 to hosts France in the final after star striker Ronaldo was hit by convulsions just hours before the match.

 

The 2006 denouement was a tough one for Zagallo, who had been unwell in the lead-up to the tournament. He was clearly finding management a strain, and retired from the game.

 

Always ebullient and ever popular, he did not disappear from public view, though, and often appeared on television, at gala awards and helping out at the CBF.

 

He married Alcina de Castro in 1955 and remained with her until her death in 2012. The couple had four children.

With affection,

Ruben