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Some love stories are worth recording for posterity, thus proving to younger generations that true love knows no bounds and transcends the superficial barriers of time and life. Lygia and Gellu Naum loved each other for 60 years and were by each other’s side in the darkest and darkest moments. Two soul mates who have surely found each other in Eternity.
He takes up poetry after losing a bet
Bucharest. August 1, 1915. In a hospital reserve in the Capital, a handsome, cute boy with dimples on his cheek is born. The writer Andrei Naum and his wife are extremely happy when they hear his first whimper and decide to name the little one Gellu.
Years pass, and the boy arrives at school. He is passionate about literature, he has a knack for words. During his high school years, being a student at the Dimitrie Cantemir National College in Bucharest, he started composing poems, following a bet made with his classmates. He gets to publish two creations in the magazine “Cuvântul”, he gets the taste of writing.
He then devoted himself to the study of philosophy at the University of Bucharest, and in 1938 he left for Paris to continue his studies at the Sorbonne.
A year later, Gellu Naum returns to his native country, and shortly after, he is mobilized and sent to the Eastern front, in the Second World War.
He falls in love with his future wife at a hypnosis session
Lygia, his better half, appears in the writer’s life at a completely unexpected moment. We are not talking about love at first sight, but about a love story that unfolds over time, during a series of events that bring them together and pave the way to a deep relationship.
The first meeting between the two future partners takes place at a party, where, following a board game, Gellu Naum is challenged to kiss the girl who caught his eye.
Fate brings them together again in a hypnosis session organized at a mutual friend’s house. Coincidentally, the poet is the only one who manages to hypnotize the young Lygia, a sign that the connection between them can no longer be ignored.
On February 14, 1943, Lygia leaves for Constanța to reunite with the man who occupies her thoughts, whose kisses she seeks, at night, in her dreams.
“On February 12, 1943, Lygia felt that she had to see Gellu, who was concentrated at a unit in Constanta. Since it was wartime, he needed authorization to leave Bucharest.
He went to the police, stood in an endless line and obtained the permit. On Saturday, February 14, at 11:00 at night, Lygia was in Constanţa, looking for Strada Mircea cel Mare, where Gellu lived in a guest house.
He found the address, knocked on the window and heard his voice – he had found him. In the terrible cold of that room, the two halves of the androgynous Naum came together for the first time, even on Valentine’s Day, a holiday that they would learn about decades later”, writes Iulian Tănase in “True story about the reunification of the androgynous Naum ”, appropriate truth.
60 years of love with nabădăi: “I write about you and you scold me for not helping you carry a table?”
A year later, Gellu Naum arrives in front of the house of his lover, Lygia. He knows he can’t live without her, so he gets down on one knee and asks her to wear the ring on his finger for the rest of his life. The two marry in 1946.
She learns, for his sake, to draw blindfolded. He uses her as a muse for his works. He dedicates the novel Zenobia to her.
“One year after the beginning of the book, we were at Comana. I was on the terrace and reproached him for not helping me with the chores in the yard. Then, he came out of his room and said to me: “Okay, my love, I’m writing about you and you’re asking me for not helping you carry a table?!”.
Only then did I realize that he was writing something about me, but I didn’t seek to find out more”, the writer’s wife told in 2003, in an interview in Observator Cultural.
Their relationship is beyond the comprehension of mere mortals. They are telepathic, they think the same thing, and when one speaks, the other finishes his sentence. Their love knows no bounds.
Lygia shaved her head when her husband had a heart attack
In 1989, the writer Gellu Naum suffered a heart attack, which is why he was hospitalized for a month, where he received top medical care.
He is 74 years old when the heart attack bites him. Frightened, his wife, Lygia, prays to the Divinity and resorts to an extreme gesture. She shaves her head in solidarity with her boyfriend. A few days after sacrificing his hair ornament, Gellu Naum’s health improves.
“I was thinking of making a sacrifice, cutting off a finger or an ear, just to make it better. And at some point, I came up with the idea of Salomea and cutting her hair. I had very rich hair and I thought this was an important sacrifice.
I decided to shave my head, and suddenly I felt a great relief, as if I had made a very good and safe decision. I asked an assistant from the hospital, who came to take Gellu’s blood pressure twice a week, to help me and possibly call the hospital barber.
I didn’t tell her why I wanted to do this, but I explained that I wouldn’t have been able to go to the hairdresser, because the hairdresser would have laughed at me when she heard that, at 68, I wanted to get a haircut like Sinead O’Connor.
It was then, thanks to her, a fashion with a shaved head. The assistant was nice and helped me, he cut my hair himself, always wondering that I wanted to do such a gesture and telling me all the time that my hair would grow back twice as often as I had.
Four or five days after that, Gellu got better. And my hair has never grown back like it used to,” Naum’s wife said in an interview in 2003.
Gellu Naum passed away on September 29, 2001, at the age of 86. His beloved Lygia is by his side as he breathes his last. Blindly. Out of pain, many say.
She is 80 years old when the light of her eyes completely leaves her, however, she continues to honor the memory of her husband. Lygia Naum laid the foundations of the Gellu Naum foundation and the Comana Memorial House and took care to publish several posthumous volumes of her husband. Three years later, he closes his eyes forever, at the age of 83.
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