person
Jean Richepin
Richepin
also: Жан Ришпен
French poet and novelist (1849-1926) whose 1881 novel "La Glu" caused a scandal for its frankness; Baron Dronkel prefers him to Turgenev as more true to life.
Reading notes
- In the Landau §10 Jean Richepin
Jean Richepin (1849-1926), a French poet and novelist whose 1881 novel "La Glu" caused a scandal for its frank treatment of sexuality -- the baron's preference for him over Turgenev signals fashionable, faintly risque French taste over the sober Russian classic.