БАЩАТА БЪЛГАРИН В РУМЪНСКИЯ РОМАН „ПАЯЖИНАТА НА ПАЯКА“ ОТ ЧЕЛА СЕРГИ
THE BULGARIAN FATHER IN THE ROMANIAN NOVEL THE SPIDER’S WEB BY CHELLA SERGHI

Summary/Abstract: The topic of the representation of Bulgarians as an ethnic minority in Romanian literature has not been examined in detail in our literary critical discourse. Part of the novelistic legacy of our northern neighbor presents the Bulgarians in a border zone, often in an unfavorable light. One of the exceptions is Cella Serghi’s novel, The Spider’s Web. The author has Bulgarian roots, and her book can be considered an autofiction which traces the fortunes and misfortunes of her own family. The father, who is Bulgarian by origin, a Dobrujan man from Silistra, is a central character, refugee by fate; he is hard-working, pugnacious, but also honest, a wanderer between two state borders. He bears the family name Slavu, tries unsuccessfully to live in Sofia and dies in Bucharest. My article argues that he defends his Bulgarian origin in murky circumstances, very difficult for himself, his family and Romania, and his remarkable honesty becomes a distinctive mark of the Bulgarian presence in the Romanian spaces of the novel.

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