Reflections

Mark Insingel was born in 1935 in Antwerp. After high school he studied drama for three years, and then started writing. He has won distinction as a concrete poet, participating in many International expositions winning in 1970 the Prijs van de Vlaamse Gids for his book of concrete poetry Perpetuum Mobile. He himself prefers the term concrete literature by which he means texts (stories and novels as well as poetry) in which the language has its own reality apart from the reality which it describes. Reflections is a novel whose text and construction visualize its contents. The chapters become shorter towards the middle; from the middle onwards they lengthen. Approaching the middle the sentences begin to revolve, turn on themselves. Each chapter has its counterpart. The book is written not towards the end but towards the middle.Insingel, Mark is the author of 'Reflections', published 1972 under ISBN 9780873760218 and ISBN 0873760212.