Quentin Crisp (1) (1908–1999)
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A propos de l'auteur
Quentin Crisp was born on December 25, 1908 and attended school in Derbyshire. Following an unsuccessful attempt to become an illustrator and a designer of book covers, Crisp tried freelance writing on a variety of subjects, including window dressing and the Ministry of Labour. Crisp's most popular afficher plus book was his autobiography, The Naked Civil Servant, which deals openly with the subject of his homosexuality. The book ultimately became a television play that has been broadcast in England, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the U.S. Other Crisp books include How to Have a Life-Style, Manners from Heaven, and The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp. He made his off-Broadway debut with An Evening with Quentin Crisp in 1978. He has also appeared in a variety of movies, including The Bride and Fatal Attraction, and in a video with the rock star, Sting. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Courtesy of the NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Œuvres de Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp's Book of Quotations: 1,000 Observations on Life and Love, By, For, and About Gay Men and Women (1989) 75 exemplaires
I'm an Englishman in New York 1 exemplaire
An Evening With Quentin Crisp (Actors' Playhouse - 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Couples: A Photographic Documentary of Gay and Lesbian Relationships (1996) — Postface, quelques éditions — 52 exemplaires
Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two (2002) — Contributeur — 44 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Pratt, Denis Charles (birth)
- Date de naissance
- 1908-12-25
- Date de décès
- 1999-11-21
- Lieu de sépulture
- cremated
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
USA - Lieu de naissance
- Carshalton, Sutton, Surrey, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Charlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
- Cause du décès
- heart attack
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
New York, New York, USA - Études
- Denstone College
King's College, London
Regent Street Polytechnic, London - Professions
- model (artist's)
writer
author
actor
raconteur - Prix et distinctions
- Special Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience (1978)
- Agent
- Donald Carroll
Richard Gollner
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 18
- Aussi par
- 9
- Membres
- 1,793
- Popularité
- #14,346
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 23
- ISBN
- 64
- Langues
- 4
- Favoris
- 2
So much of his life was about one century ahead of its time. Some people might claim this is why the book, told in such a wry and funny way for most of its length, ends on a rather bleak note. But I think the modern reader can be too influenced by our contemporary obsession with identity when considering Crisp - I sure had to avoid that pitfall. Instead of making this a book about being gay in the dark ages, It seems that the writer would rather it be a record of someone who was unabashedly unique, to the point of self endangerment. We follow the author’s life as it swings from absolute persecution to muddled acceptance (soured by what Crisp seems to feel is a kind of appropriation of the “hooligan” aesthetic by the so called counterculture) with only a brief period of “good times,” (which happened to be during the London Blitz) to bridge the two. It would have been easy for Crisp to “tone it down” in order to make his existence more tenable for others - yet he simply refused. Rather that making this book a pure paean to individuality, we instead get a realistic picture of the sacrifices you make when you can’t fit into the constraints of your time.
In the words of Thelonius Monk: “The genius is he who is most like himself.” By that criteria, Crisp would do more than qualify.… (plus d'informations)