Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Hoffmann's prism
  • Prologue/polemic: "Unnecessary truth"
  • Under the sign of Hoffmann
  • Refraction
  • Meyerhold-Dapertutto: Framing the grotesque
  • Prologue/polemic: "The cricket on the hearth, or, At the keyhole"
  • Enter Doctor Dapertutto
  • Dapertutto's Three Oranges: the scenario, the studio, and the journal
  • Interlude: inspector general (1926)
  • Epilogue: A waterless flood
  • Tairov-Celionati: mime-drama and kaleidoscopic commedia
  • Prologue/ polemic: "The dusk of the dawns"
  • Mime-drama and the new theater
  • Interlude: Princess Brambilla: a Kamerny Capriccio after Hoffmann (1920)
  • Epilogue: An independent path
  • Peregrinus Tyss meets Pipifax: Eisenstein, the grotesque, and the attraction
  • Prologue/polemic: Tarelkin's Death
  • The theatrical adventures of Mr. Peregrinus Tyss
  • Tyss's Moscow experiments
  • Interlude: Pipifax's pantomime: Columbine's garter (1922)
  • Epilogue: Through theater to film
  • The afterlife of a death jubilee
  • Hoffmann's Jubilee (1922)
  • The afterlife of refracted light
  • Appendix A. Three essays from Love for three oranges: The journal of Doctor Dapertutto
  • Hoffmaniana
  • Open letter from the authors of the divertissement Love for three oranges to A.A. Gvozdev
  • Comedy of pure joy: Ludwig Tieck's Puss in boots
  • Appendix B. Columbine's veil
  • Appendix C. Pierrette's veil
  • Appendix D. Columbine's garter.