The aim of this article is to test the potentiality
of Jaan Undusk's conception of magical-mystical language, as
presented in his book Maagiline müstiline keel (1998),
in defining the main features of structural dynamics in Toomas
Raudam's prose. We claim that the reviewers of Raudam's literary
works, although mostly unconsciously, have detected a certain
tendency toward magical or mystical substantiality in the artistic
structure of Raudam's texts. To prove that contention, we have
pointed out several parallels between the literary aims of Raudam
and traditional mystic authors. Raudam's writing attempts to
surmount language by means of language itself, in order to reach
the sacral, yet humanistic absolute. Sacrality in Raudam's texts
is veiled with a specific playful writing style. However, this
sacrality is revealed in the "virtual dimension" of
the text by the act of the reader's creative reception of the
text. Thus it could be maintained that Raudam's prose may well
be interpreted by the theory of J. Undusk. However, neither Raudam
himself nor any of his critics have explicitly characterized
his work as belonging to the mode of the mystical text creation.
