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He went to art openings, attended parties, appeared on television, and wrote books advancing his theory of style. Here he describes his life as an effeminate man born, he thought, in the wrong place and time, and his eventual recognition of style as a kind of survival strategy.
Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt; 25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English raconteur, whose work in the public eye included a memoir of his life and various media appearances. Before becoming well known, he was an artist's model, hence the title of his most famous work, The Naked Civil Servant.
6 lip 2011 · In his 1968 autobiography, The Naked Civil Servant, Quentin Crisp spoke of the ‘message of hope’ he had for ‘a drudging world’: his own rebellion against the mores of domesticity embodied in the in...
28 mar 2013 · In this article, we review, on three grounds, the nature of the life story. First, we evaluate the appropriateness of the proposal that the life story emerges in adolescence (the time of the traditional identity crisis). Second, we examine the relation between big stories (of which the life story is one) and small stories.
28 gru 2011 · Laurence Watts meets Phillip Ward to discuss the life and work of Quentin Crisp, and his "simple philosophy of happiness and being".
29 cze 2019 · Quentin Crisp’s name is not often brought up in humanist circles, and yet he lived his whole life as a unique, courageous and exemplary humanist. He wasn’t affiliated with humanists in any formal way, yet from an early age—without mentors to inspire or to guide him—from the depths inherent in his st
The Archives has gathered various writings, published and unpublished, by Quentin Crisp and is preparing them for publication in Mr. Crisp's final book, The Dusty Answers, and will share excerpts online here at Crisperanto.org.
