WHO IS DANZIG?
The sprouting network of faces and relationships leaves nothing still, unchanged or the same. Danzig is the first character with whom the ambiguity begins and whose multiple, seemingly unrelated names run like little tiny creeks of spilled water, begetting a polyphony of sounds, images, and meanings. You become instantly informed that Danzig is not his real name, but the information is given in the form of a rumor, leaving you to wonder, but soon you realize that it may be true. I have with me (and yet not with me, for he has a room of his own) a young painter who calls himself Danzig although I am convinced that is not his real name. More than once I have heard the waiter address him in an undertone as ‘Lorenzaccio’. This so-called Danzig claims to have been an officer in the Austrian Navy and to have learned his excellent Italian in Trieste, where he served on board a submarine. He has already painted the Archduke , and now he is to paint me. There is no way to find out the truth abo
