Arnon Grunberg

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Grandsons

A friend alerted me to this blog entry:

‘My grandmother, she’s not a normal person. She’s like a character when she speaks. Every day she’s playing like she’s an actress.” These are words of love, and they come from Sacha Goldberger, a French photographer who has turned his grandmother, 93-year-old Frederika Goldberger, into a minor European celebrity.
In the photos, you can see the qualities grandson and grandmother have in common: a wicked sense of humor, an utter lack of pretension and a keen taste for theatricality and the absurd.
This isn’t an ordinary caregiving relationship, not by a long shot. But Sacha, 44 years old and unmarried, is deeply devoted to this spirited older relation who has played the role of Mamika (“my little grandmother,” translated from her native Hungarian) in two of his books and a photography exhibition currently under way in Paris.
As for Frederika, “I like everything that my grandson does,” she said in a recent Skype conversation from her apartment, which also serves as Sacha’s office. “I hate not to do anything. Here, with my grandson, I have the feeling I am doing something.’

(Read the complete entry here.)

I used to believe that sons should marry their mothers, but perhaps grandsons should marry their grandmothers. If a grandmother is available of course.

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