Lost Face · Character
Subienkow
A Polish exile and dreamer of independence, he has been driven across Siberia to Russian America, where he now waits bound in the snow for Nulato torture.
major
First appearance: Lost Face
As a major figure in Lost Face, Subienkow is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
The protagonist, a Polish fur-thief captured by the Nulato Indians, who uses a clever ruse to avoid torture and chooses a quick death.
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Subienkow is a prisoner of the Nulato Indians, a fine-nerved poet and artist stranded at the far edge of the world after a long trail of bitterness from Warsaw. He does not fear death itself but dreads the loss of…
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Relationship types
- Rivalry
- Social
- Other
Character groups
- Captors and torturers
- Protagonist
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Closing
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- Makamuk
rivalry · negative
Makamuk and Subienkow are adversaries, with Makamuk representing the tribal force that… How this plays out →
- Yakaga
rivalry · negative
- Big Ivan
rivalry · negative
- The Man
social · ambivalent
- Makamuk
rivalry · negative
Makamuk and Subienkow are adversaries, with Makamuk representing the tribal force that… How this plays out →
- Makamuk
rivalry · negative
Makamuk and Subienkow are adversaries, with Makamuk representing the tribal force that… How this plays out →
- The Man
social · ambivalent
- Yakaga
rivalry · negative
- Yakaga
rivalry · negative
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