Mark Insingel

Ode aan de Nederlandse taal

Стихотворения

• [Wat ik zo jammer vind] | Переводы: ende
• [Toen ik haar al lang niet meer verwachtte] | Переводы: endesr
• [Met geheven hoofd] | Переводы: ende
• [Je bent niet hier maar ergens] | Переводы: frde
• [Als ik de tijd dood pleeg ik] | Переводы: ende
• Ode aan de Nederlandse taal | Переводы: en

Язык: голландский

Переводы: английский (To the Dutch language)

Ode aan de Nederlandse taal

Ik besta in de manier
waarop ik van je houd.
Jij vormt mijn lippen, jij
bestaat in de manier
waarop men mij verstaat.
Ik wil je horen en ik
spreek, ik wil je zien en
teken je, lichaam van
tekens, in betekenis
heb ik gemeenschap met
je, in gemeenschap met
je voel ik: ik besta.

Переводы:

Язык: английский

To the Dutch language

I exist in the way
in which I love you.
You form my lips, you
exist in the way
in which I’m understood.
I want to hear you and I
speak, I want to see you and
I draw you, body of
signs, in meaning
I have intercourse with
you, in intercourse with
you I feel: I exist.

Mark Insingel

Foto © Willy Dee

* 03.05.1935, Lier, Бельгия
Место жительства: , Бельгия

Mark Insingel (1935) made his debut in 1963 and from the outset has written in an experimental style that has made a stand for social relevance. In a society focused solely on reproduction, autonomous literature forms the final refuge for the writer to create something unique.

Language is at the heart of Mark Insingel’s oeuvre. His writing is based on an idiosyncratic, creative relationship with language and existing forms of expression such as slogans, traditional proverbs and idiomatic phrases, which he undermines and in his unique way playfully and unexpectedly combines in varying settings to eek out new meanings. This attention to the aural and visual aspects of language led to PERPETUUM MOBILE (1969), the first volume of concrete poetry in the Dutch language, and Posters (1974).

Foto © Willy Dee

The almost mathematical structure of his poems is created by means of the variegated and modulating way in which verses are repeated and juxtaposed, giving the impression that these poems originate from mathematical logic. Not only are individual poems structured in this manner; some books are also consciously conceived as ‘linguistic algorithms’. In Dat wil zeggen (In Other Words; 1975) the texts are generated from preconceived basic rules. Every third text recaptures a preceding text. Through this network of similarity and contrast a rhythm comes about that is elaborated upon with almost mathematical precision. Language thus becomes the place of choice to exist.

His consistently maintained predilection for the avant-garde has relegated Mark Insingel to the margins of the literary landscape, causing his work never to be fully appreciated. This has not stopped him from writing, however, and in 1990 his provisional collected poems were published, entitled In elkanders armen (In Each Other’s Arms). The recent minimalist love poems in Niets (Nothing; 2005), for which he received the Publieksprijs for best poetry volume, and in Iets (Something; 2007), nominated for the Herman de Coninckprijs, appear to have caught the attention of a younger generation of poetry readers.

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