“Goalkeeper of the Republic” is a novel [1] by Lev Abramovich Kassil , one of the first works on sports theme in the fiction of the USSR . After writing in 1937, it was published in the USSR (it was first published in the journal Krasnaya Nov, and also appeared in an arrangement for schoolchildren in Pioneer Truth in 1937-1939), as well as in other countries. The second edition came out only in 1959, twenty years later. The novel was released in the wake of the success of the film Goalkeeper (1936) and was written based on its script, also authored by Cassille [2] .
| Republic goalkeeper | |
|---|---|
| Author | Leo Kassil |
| Genre | art |
| Original language | Russian |
| Original published | 1937 |
| Publisher | the USSR |
| Carrier | book |
Content
Story
The novel tells about the lives of two young people before, during and in the first two decades after the October Revolution .
One of them, Anton Candidov, is from a working-class family. After the revolution, the foreman of the loaders' artel in his hometown. After meeting with the Moscow employees of the Hydraer plant (along with football athletes) he moved to Moscow and became a famous goalkeeper.
The second - Eugene Karasik - hails from an intelligent family of a doctor. After the revolution, he becomes a famous journalist.
Sport is shown in the novel from the Soviet point of view: “no” to professional sports, all athletes must work somewhere. Leo Kassil expressed the same thoughts in the novel “The White Queen’s Move”.
Prototype of the protagonist
In 1958, Lev Kassil, in a copy of the book donated to Anatoly Akimov , wrote in the author’s signature that he was a prototype of the main character of the novel - Anton Candideov [3] . However, at the time of writing the script for the film “Goalkeeper” (1935), Akimov was not yet known to the general public, which casts doubt on this fact [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Goalkeeper of the Republic
- ↑ 1 2 Bernstein A. “Goalkeeper” - 50! // Football Hockey . - 1986. - December 28 ( issue 52 ( No. 1388 ). - S. 12 .
- ↑ B. Nartovsky “Clock Gate” // Goalkeeper's court / comp. L.P. Franchuk. - Kiev: Central Committee of the Young Communist League of Youth, 1985. - S. 5. - 152 p. - (Standard Bearers of Sports). - 30,000 copies.