Rather small in number but highly
influential works of the Swiss linguist
still trigger fierce controversies and
heated interpretation disputes. According
to some researchers, de Saussure
embodies a scientific paradigm
and represents what in the humanities
is most systematized and scientific
while to others, he is an insane scientist
secretly studying old poetry in
order to discover meanings encoded in
poems. The article sums up a hundredyear-
old reception of the Genevan’s
thought in the literary studies and it
explains anagrammatic poems dedicated
to Saussure’s theory.
