Arturo Fontaine Talavera

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Full Name	Arturo Fontaine Talavera
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	May 9, 1952(1952-05-09)
Age	72
Birthplace	Santiago
Country	Chile
Birth City	Santiago
Horoscope	Gemini

Arturo Fontaine Talavera Biography

Arturo Fontaine Talavera is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on May 9, 1952 in Santiago, Santiago, Chile. Son of the poet Valentina Talavera Balmaceda (1928 -2011) and the lawyer and journalist Arturo Fontaine Aldunate, ex- Chilean Ambassador to Argentina, director of the El Mercurio newspaper and winner of the Premio Nacional for Journalism, Fontaine is the eldest of 6 children. He is married and separated from Mercedes Ducci with whom he has two children.

In September of the same year Fontaine travelled to the United States to continue his post graduate studies in the Philosophy department at Columbia University, New York where he won the President’s Fellowship scholarship and studied under Arthur Danto, among others. He attended several workshops in the writing division of Columbia University and was a student of Manuel Puig -the Argentinian novelist- Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Joseph Brodsky, Daniel Halpern, Frank MacShane, among others. In 1980 he was named Preceptor and taught the course known at Columbia as “Humanities” where students read a selection of fundamental literature texts.

In June 1988, the CEP published a poll (cited by The New York Times) showing a general repudiation of the Pinochet regime and predicting its defeat in upcoming elections, contradicting three other published polls that predicted the triumph of Pinochet.

Thirteen years after the publication of Nueva York, Fontaine published his second book of poetry: Poemas hablados in 1989. Poemas hablados is a collection where the monologues of different persons take precedence. Roberto Merino wrote: “Fontaine wants to restore the light, the shadow and the lost sense of intimacy, weaving together the most vulnerable elements into his text: memory and speech. The critic Carmen Foxley pointed out that “they are situations or scenarios through which a person passes, leaving there his footprints, eyes, hair slowly falling backwards, a blink and the disturbing and mortal effect of that interruption, which interrupts the apparent stillness and anachronistic recollection of the scene and makes everything apparently innocent seem suspicious.” When the book appeared, Ignacio Aguero recorded a video which gives an idea of how these poems should be spoken, using the voices of the actress Schlomit Baytelman and the author, with a commentary by the poet Diego Maquieira.

Fontaine graduated with maximum honours at the beginning of 1977. He was awarded a degree in Philosophy and immediately afterwards was appointed as a teacher at his alma mater.

Arturo Fontaine Talavera Net Worth

Arturo Fontaine Talavera is one of the richest Poet from Chile. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Arturo Fontaine Talavera 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Arturo Fontaine Talavera, (Santiago, 1952) is a novelist, poet and essayist, considered as one of the writers most representative of the Chilean “New Narrative” that surfaced in the 1990s.

The poems collected together in Nueva York (1976) were well received by critics. Filebo wrote: ” …his book is a little treatise… on the glitter and misery of this Babylon where, day after day the flower of a new Apocalypse bursts forth.” Braulio Arenas affirmed that Fontaine “emerges with great force in Chilean poetry, with a youthful, wholesome and unforeseen energy.… [H]is New York stands out for its personal structure, a structure eternal and momentary, apocalyptic and serene, sinister and translucent.

With two master’s degrees, an MA and an MPhil from the Philosophy department, Columbia University, Fontaine returned to Chile to teach at a newly founded university. However, shortly after his return, the university folded due to the changing funding environment in the government of Augusto Pinochet. Fontaine therefore found himself without a job and entered the Centro de Estudios Públicos (Centre for Public Studies) as a translator. Here he soon found himself heading the magazine Estudios Públicos, a quarterly publication dedicated to the Social Sciences and the Humanities. In 1983 he was named Director of the CEP, an independent and liberal institute.

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His short stories have also been anthologized: “Honrrarás a tu padre” in 1998 and “Nuevos pecados capitales of Sergio Olguin” in 2001. He has also published essays on different themes in the magazine Estudios Públicos and his literary articles have appeared in Letras Libres, El Mercurio, Nexos, Página/12 and others. His conferences on Marcel Proust and Fernando Pessoa can be seen on video in YouTube.

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Arturo Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Chile. Arturo Fontaine Talavera celebrates birthday on May 9 of every year.

Fontaine returned to poetry with Mis ojos x tus ojos in 2007, a collection of brief love poems, several of which had appeared before in the magazine Letras Libres. The critic Grínor Rojo wrote:”How can one write love poetry in these sceptical times?…to look at someone’s eyes is not just to contemplate them but to go inside them….”Tus parpados visten y desvisten a tus ojos” and later on, commenting on another poem that says “insisto llorando y te obligo a abrirme en gajos/a beber tus labios me vas forzando sin querer” Rojo says: “This is the moment when the intensity of erotic ecstasy is substituted by boredom….a lovely book and much more profound than it would appear from a superficial reading”. The poet Oscar Hahn commented: “I find it really unusual that the author who wrote those powerful and extensive novels Oir su voz and Cuando eramos inmortales should be the same one who composes these laconic, brief and almost silent verses”. The poems speak about a story of love “which the reader has to put together in his imagination because the pieces that complete it are absent and this absence is also called silence. Not any silence but the one that hides itself among the folds of love and the gaps in the words. And this is what Arturo Fontaine expresses with impeccable intuition in Mis ojos x tus ojos”. For the poet Diego Maquieira it is about “verses that are absolutely alive and uncontaminated, flashes of high definition, expressions of infinite tenderness…finally a book in which the striking beauty of Eros gives love the possibility of finding a home”.