Arturo Fontaine

After the success of his novel, Fontaine surprised everyone with something totally different: poems along the lines of a negative mysticism, i.e. poems-prayers to a god that doesn’t exist. “No podemos decir la palabra/por eso todas las demás”. Tu nombre en vano is a thoughtful book which explores religiousness from the point of view of its absence and is constructed in the tradition of the psalms and mystic poetry.