What Vvedensky's Animals Are Talking About

Abstract

The article examines the language of animals, who are, in one way or another, connected to death and the afterlife, and thus let in on their secrets. Our task is to investigate the speech characteristics of animals, birds, insects, and fish and how they relate to Vvedensky's ideas of conducting a poetic critique of reason, discovering new types of connections in the world, feeling its disconnection and fragmentation of time, and, finally, proving that reason does not understand the world. The language of animals is analyzed in the context of the new cosmogony conceived by Vvedensky that should take us back to the starting point - to the creation of the world, to harmony, in which man, plants, and animals talked to and understood each other.