César Falcón

César Falcón Gárfias (19 April 1892 – 11 October 1970) was a

Peruvian writer, journalist and politician.
César Falcón Gárfias

Contents
Life
Early years
Spain
Later years
Works
Theater
Fiction
Essays
References
Sources

Falcón c. 1939
Life Born 19 April 1892
Lima, Peru

Early years Died 11 October 1970

(aged 78)
César Falcón Gárfias was born in Lima, Peru in 1892. From an early Lima, Peru
age he was enthusiastic about revolutionary politics. He and María Nationality Peruvian
Weisse founded a group called Amauta, a forum for reporting the
abuses of imperialism and working towards improved conditions for Occupation Writer, journalist and
the Peruvian working class. Through this group and other political politician
activities he became known to other left-leaning intellectuals and
artists in Peru. Falcón and the essayist Moquegua José Carlos Mariátegui co-founded the newspaper La
Razón (Reason). The paper stood out for its strident defense of university reform and strong support for the
labor movement.[1]

Spain

A few months after La Razón was launched, on 4 July 1919 Augusto Bernardino Leguía staged a successful
coup. Falcón and Mariátegui were radically opposed to the dictatorship that began to emerge. Their printers
withdrew support. To quietly get his opponents out of the way Leguía invited a number of them to accept
scholarships to travel to Europe. With little choice, Falcón moved to Spain. Mariátegui went to Italy and
then travelled through Europe, with lengthy stays in France, Germany, Austria, Hungary and
Czechoslovakia, where he became imbued with Communist ideology. Mariátegui then joined Falcón, Carlos
Roe and Palmiro Machiavelo to found the first Peruvian Communist cell. The goal was to promote (from
Europe) the political organization of Peruvian workers.[1]
Falcón soon became one of the leaders of left-wing activists in Spain, and worked for several newspapers
and magazines.[1] Irene Lewy Rodríguez (1908–99) met César Falcón in 1922.[2] Two years later the
newspaper El Sol asked Falcón to move to London as a correspondent. Falcón married Irene Lewy, who
accompanied him under contract as correspondent by the daily La Voz (The Voice), a Spanish newspaper.[2]
Their son Mayo was born in London in May 1926 but was not registered at the Spanish consulate due to
concerns with the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera.[3] From 1927 to 1939 César Falcón edited
various publications of the Spanish Communist Party.[1] Irene and César returned to Spain after Primo de
Rivera fell in 1930.[3] They published Historia Nueva (New History) and launched the party Izquierda
Revolucionaria y Antiimperialista (IRYA: Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Left).[2] They were active during
the Spanish Civil War (1936–39).[1] The Falcóns' marriage broke down because César Falcón could not
remain faithful.[4]

Later years

When the fascist forces won the war, Falcón was forced to leave Spain.[1] During World War II (1939–45)
Irene and César Falcón were separated, and César returned to Peru.[3] He wrote for journals such as
Garcilaso and Nuestra Voz. He was forced to leave Peru due to his political views, and finally settled in
Mexico from 1947 to 1970. There he launched Historia Nueva, a prestigious publication.[1] César Falcón
Gárfias died in Lima in 1970.[1]

Works

Theater
Por culpa ajena (estrenada en el Teatro Lima, Lima, 10 de febrero de 1914)
La gran noche (Lima, septiembre de 1915)
La casa de Agreda (estrenada en el Teatro Colón, 27 de noviembre de 1914).
Los mozos cundas (Lima, julio de 1918)
Asturias (Madrid, 1935).

Fiction
Plantel de inválidos (Madrid, 1921 y 1928), cuentos.
El pueblo sin Dios (Madrid, 1928), novela indigenista, que fue fruto de su estancia en la ciudad
de Huánuco.
Los bajos fondos (Madrid, 1928), novela.
Madrid (Madrid-Barcelona, 1938), crónica novelada de la resistencia republicana en Madrid,
durante la guerra civil española.
El buen vecino Sanabria U. (México, 1947), caricaturización violenta del presidente peruano
Manuel Prado Ugarteche, que se caracterizó por su apoyo a la política de los Estados Unidos
entre 1939 y 1945.
Por la ruta sin horizonte (México, 1961), primer tomo de una serie de cinco, titulada
globalmente En la perspectiva de España.

Essays
Crítica de la revolución española (Desde la dictadura hasta las Constituyentes) (Madrid, 1931)
 Imperialismo y antiimperialismo (Comentarios a la acción contra los yanquis) (Madrid, 1931)
España sostiene en Ginebra su línea de lucha por la democracia y la paz (Barcelona, 1938)
El mundo que agoniza (México, 1945), examen de la situación mundial en el periodo entre las
dos guerras mundiales.
Algunas condiciones necesarias de la reconquista nacional (México, 1955), sobre las
perspectivas de la recuperación democrática en España.

References
1. Fernández de Cano 2015.
2. Irene Falcón, secretaria personal... El País.
3. Zurbano Melero 2010.
4. Salvadó 2013, p. 128.

Sources
Fernández de Cano, J. R. (2015). "Falcón Garfias, César (1892-1970)" (http://www.mcnbiograf
ias.com/app-bio/do/show?key=falcon-garfias-cesar). MCN Biografias. Retrieved 2015-04-08.
"Irene Falcón, secretaria personal de Pasionaria" (http://elpais.com/diario/1999/08/20/agenda/
935100001_850215.html). El País. 1999-08-20. Retrieved 2015-03-20.
Salvadó, Francisco J. Romero (2013). Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War (https://bo
oks.google.com/books?id=wsE7Nm9-yDEC&pg=PA128). Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-
8108-5784-1. Retrieved 2015-03-19.
Zurbano Melero, José Gabriel (2010-11-22). "César e Irene Falcón: un matrimonio con
compromiso" (http://ciudad-futura.net/2010/11/22/cesar-falcon_jgz/). Ciudad futura. Retrieved
2015-03-19.

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