person
Hippolyte Taine
Taine
also: Тэн
French critic and historian (1828-1893) whose deterministic theory of art via race, milieu, and moment was widely read in Russia; invoked here as a name-drop credential for pretended taste.
Reading notes
- On Drama §4 Taine
Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893), French critic and historian whose deterministic theory of art (race, milieu, moment) was widely read and namedropped by educated Russians of the period; Poluekhtov invokes him as a credential for his own pretensions to taste.