Contents

INTRODUCTION

Ordinin-Town

China-Town

EXPOSITION

Chapter I

Tamotoes Sold Here

Olenka Kuntz and the Warrant

The Death of Old Arkhipov

Chapter II

The Ordinin House

Two Conversations. The Old Men

Denouements

Chapter III

About Freedoms
Through Andrei’s Eyes

Through Natalya’s Eye

Through Irina’s Eyes

Chapter IV

Commutators–Accumulators

The Provinces, Y’Know.–Town Tators

The Monastery Vvedenyo-na-Gore

Fire–Lators

Chapter V

Deaths (Triptych the First)

The Death of the Commune

The First Dying

Third Part of the Triptych (the darkest)

Chapter VI

and Penultimate. The Bolsheviks (Second Triptych)

Leather Jackets

China-Town

Third Part of the Triptych (the brightest)

Chapter VII

(the last, without a title)

CONCLUSION

The Last Triptych (material, in essence)

Incantations

Conversations

Wedding

Outside the Triptych, at the end

AFTERWORD

Selected Bibliography of Works about Pilnyak