Abstract
The article deals with the topic of linguistic skepticism in modernistic literature, using works of German, Austrian and Russian literature as examples. The crisis of rationalistic thinking at the turn of the 20th century led to an extensive discussion about the functions and role of language. The reaction to the crisis of faith in the power of language was the search for ways to overcome this crisis - from the demand for voluntary poetic silence to the utopian project of creating a perfect language of poetry. Numerous avantgarde linguistic experiments resulted from the recognition of the inconsistency of former poetic forms. The anarchist rebellion against conventional language and its conscious deformation are paradoxically combined with innovative artistic projects that set the transformation of the world with the help of the revived word as their ultimate goal.
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