Samuil Lurie

Samuil Aronovich Lurie (Template:Lang-ru; 12 May 1942, Sverdlovsk – 8 August 2015, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian writer and historian of literature. Many of his works were published under pseudonym S Gedroitz (Template:Lang-ru)

Biography

Samuil Aronovich Lurie was born to a family of philologists from Saint Petersburg evacuated during the World War II. His father, Aron Naumovich Lurie (1913-2003) was a bibliographer, and historian of literature, Doctor of Philological Science and a World War II veteran.

Lurie graduated from Leningrad State University, worked as a village school teacher (1964-1964), then for the National Pushkin Museum in Saint Petersburg(1965-1966). His first publications were in Zvezda magazine (1964). He led a coloumn in Zvezda magazine named "Lessons of Belles-Letres" (Template:Lang-ru).

He became editor in 1966 of ru magazine. From 1988-2002 he was editor-in-chief of the prose section. From 2002-12 he worked as an editor of Polden XXI Century, a science fantasy almanac. He authored more than a thousand journal articles.

Books

• Литератор Писарев: роман. Л.: Советский писатель, 1987; Print of 1963 was destroyed
• Толкование судьбы (эссе). СПб.: Борей, 1994
• Разговоры в пользу мёртвых (эссе). СПб.: Urbi, 1997
• Успехи ясновидения. СПб.: Издательство Пушкинского фонда, 2002
• Муравейник. СПб.: Издательство журнала Нева, 2002
• Нечто и взгляд. СПб.: Издательство Пушкинского фонда, 2004
• Письма полумёртвого человека (роман в письмах). СПб.: Янус, 2004 (together with Дм. Циликиным)
• Такой способ понимать. СПб.: Класс, 2007
• Сорок семь ночей. СПб.: Журнал «Звезда», 2008 (under pseudonym С. Гедройц)
• Гиппоцентавр, или Опыты чтения и письма. СПб: Читатель, 2011 (under pseudonym С. Гедройц)
• Железный бульвар. СПб.: Азбука, 2012
• Изломанный аршин. СПб.: Пушкинский фонд, 2012
• Меркуцио, Zvezda 2015