"We Russians have the enchanted hearts of a child"
: a word from Nicolas Berdiaev is enough for Laurent Lasne to shed light on the fate of Lev Yachine (1929-1990), the mythical goalkeeper of Dynamo Moscow and the national team, five-time USSR champion, three-time Cup winner, Olympic gold medal in Melbourne in 1956 and European champion in Paris in 1960, after beating the Yugoslav team by the mark of 2 à 1. By this, the fictionalized essay through which the writer retraces the life of the "Black Spider" stands out as a novel of the Russian soul in which historical materialism is revealed as a very small thing on the surface. of national history.
“Russia will drink communism like blotting paper drinks ink,”
Charles de Gaulle predicted.
Childhood and working-class culture
When he recalls that the embroidered "D" of Dynamo Kiev that Yachin wore on his national team jersey was a discreet nod to a regiment of the Tsarist era, Laurent Lasne almost makes his hero a dissident of inside,
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