A meaning of tongue in modern Russian Literature

In modern Russian prose a tongue begins to play a special role for
appearance, behaviour and status of the character. This detail of a portrait becomes
grotesque, language becomes the most important trait of character appearance
or an autonomous entity. The anatomical strangeness of the tongue
corresponds to various forms of defects in the speech of a character or excessive
rhetoric in combination with defectiveness. From the point of view of the plot it
is «self-abnegation» of a tongue in situations of suicide of the hero, tongueʼs
cutting, replacement language to a particular alien, but more effectively acting special «vampire» tongue. A grotesque anatomical tongue is associated with
a set of typical of traditional Russian and modern global culture character roles:
the fool, «little man», Russian intellectual, a fearsome vampire. The boundaries
of such intertextual character in the character system are determined by the
anomaly – a freak outcast to Superman, but the opportunity to return to anthropomorphic
norm is preserved. Thus, image of a tongue is in contraversive space
of meanings between the abnormal and normal.