19/03/2014
CELLA SERGHI and BALCHIK. Reading "Panza de paianjen" ("Spider's web") for so, but SO many times, has built in me this fascination for Balchik, a seaside resort at The Black Sea in Bulgaria. I discovered the real Balchik only 6 years ago, and, surprisingly, it was like in my dreams, like in those evenings back then when my imagination had no boundaries and I felt each written line of the book like I was literally THERE. "Panza de paianjen" is one of the dearest books of my soul, the one that I go back every time I feel romantically sad, every time the summer approaches and I have days when I am overwhelmed with melancholy.
The book is mainly autobiographic, as Cella Serghi became a writer by chance after falling in love with the writer Camil Petrescu. I DO love every line of this book, it has such an incredible capacity of making you indulge in its world, you feel you are transported in that period, with those characters, you feel the sand and the salty air, you hear the waves and you, for sure, but FOR SURE, become Diana Slavu, the name Cella Serghi chose for herself in this book.
“Mi-am spus: ceea ce mă atrăgea la el era impresia pe care mi-o dădea că e singur, nenorocit, că unicul lui stimulent in viaţă sunt eu, că sunt singura lui bucurie, unica lui preocupare. Dacă nu-i aşa, nu mă interesează. Nu mă interesează un bărbat decât în măsura în care cred că-l stăpânesc ca femeie, în care cred că sunt pentru el, într-un moment din viaţă, o fiinţă unică, de neînlocuit.”
― Cella Serghi, Pânza de păianjen
