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Но возникает такое чувство, что Дуртаноски знаком со всеми — приветливо машет прохожему, целует официантку в кафе, улыбается владельцу итальянского ресторанчика (и обращается к нему на невообразимой смеси немецкого и испанского, который он знает очень хорошо — Гоце окончил университет в Барселоне), приглашая его на бокал вина.
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Durtanoski maintains cultural, family and business ties — he enjoys reasonable success with calligraphy as the Prague exhibit shows, but he also does something like 100 other things — especially in his native Macedonia, which preserves its Orthodox and Cyrillic traditions well. He goes by “George”, his Macedonian Christian name anglicized, but he'll translate or transliterate that, too, depending on the audience. And it's a large and growing audience: Bochum, with a population of some 500,000-odd inhabitants, is a German city big enough to forgive a Macedonian who grew up in the Netherlands and currently has an art show running in the Czech Republic for not knowing everybody. Durtanoski, however, seems to be kissing the waitress hello, waving across the street to passers-by and flagging down the owner of an Italian restaurant (and switching to a pidgin of German and Spanish, which he speaks fluently, having studied in Barcelona) to sit for a glass of wine.
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