Lure, Natan
Lur’e, Natan Mikhailovich
(literary name, Note Lur’e). Born Jan. 2 (15), 1906, in the village of Roskoshnoe, Zaporozh’e. Soviet Jewish writer.
As a boy, Lur’e was an agricultural worker. He graduated from the literature department of the Second Moscow State University and served in the Great Patriotic War (1941-45). He worked for the newspaper Der ernes (The Truth) and began publishing in 1929. The novel The Steppe Calls (1932; Russian translation, 1958) describes life in a Jewish village, the sharp class struggle during collectivization, the breakdown of the psychology of private ownership, and the longing of the peasantry for a new life. In the novel Heaven and Earth (1963) the author focuses on the events of the Great Patriotic War. Lur’e’s prose is psychological and lyrical. He was a master of the technique of the internal monologue.
WORKS
A libe bam iam. Moscow, 1938.Khiml un erd. Moscow, 1965.
REFERENCES
Klitenik, I. “In di ershte reien.” In Verk un shraiber. Moscow, 1935.Remenik, G. “Note Lur’e.” Sovetish heimland, 1966, no. 1.