“A VAGUE HANGOVER”: THE ANTHROPOLOGY AND HISTORIOSOPHY OF THE “U” SOUND (“THE FADED FUN OF THE MAD YEARS...” BY A. S. PUSHKIN AND “TWO DESTINIES” BY V. S. VYSOTSKY)

Taking into account the broad context of phonosemantic research, the article implements an aesthetic-psychophysiological hypothesis about the correlation of the sound “u” with the state of а “vague hangover”. Based on the material of specific texts by A. S. Pushkin and V. S. Vysotsky, the functional and semantic role of the “hangover” sound is shown: in Pushkin’s elegy it transforms and softens (“I’ll get drunk on harmony”, “love”), and in Vysotsky’s poem it ends with a complex of prolonged fading “u-u-i-i-a-a”. This comparison allows us to draw conclusions of an anthropological and historiosophical order.