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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.
Crisp’s theory of style is that it is an alternative to identity and a path to self-preservation—a way of being and exaggerating your personality rather than be held accountable for it by an angry mob.
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".
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...
12 lis 2020 · From a young age, Quentin Crisp was determined to be himself—makeup, painted nails, dramatically dyed hair, and all—even if it consigned him to a life of poverty and isolation. Hear the author, raconteur, and provocateur in a 1970 conversation with Studs Terkel before he found late-in-life fame.
In this autobiography, Quentin Crisp describes his unhappy childhood and the stresses of adolescence that led him to London. There in bedsits and cafes he found a world of brutality and comedy, of shortlived jobs and precarious relationships.
20 kwi 2015 · The Englishman in New York talks about his childhood, his sexual identity and his eventual move to America.
