Iron Boulevard. Lurie S.A.

The St. Petersburg writer Samuel Lurie did not like the word “essay”, believing that even the great masters of this genre rarely avoid the danger of replacing the subject of description with themselves. Lurie was always sincerely worried about the fate of those about whom he wrote. His exact and expressive portraits of writers and poets have always been created according to the formula: personal style as a significant reflection of fate. One of these portraits appears before the reader on the pages of this book.

This time it is a collective image of the St. Petersburg intellectual. Inhabited at the same time in the real and symbolic space of the city, he walks along the imaginary streets, talks with the ghosts of the authors and the characters they created, builds a variety of speculations about other people's fictions. Combining the scientific accuracy, the inimitable grace of the syllable and unobtrusive humor, the essay of Samuel Lurie is an excellent example of what the author himself called "the art of the impossible word."

“You replace the impossible word with several possible, and this is literature.”