The Naked Civil Servant (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Crisp, Quentin

ISBN 10: 0141180536 / ISBN 13: 9780141180533

Edité par Penguin Publishing Group, 1997

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Naked Civil Servant (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
• Éditeur: Penguin Publishing Group
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0141180536
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780141180533
• Reliure: paperback
• État de l'article: Good

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Synopsis

A comical and poignant memoir of a gay man living life as he pleased in the 1930s

In 1931, gay liberation was not a movement—it was simply unthinkable. But in that year, Quentin Crisp made the courageous decision to "come out" as a homosexual. This exhibitionist with the henna-dyed hair was harrassed, ridiculed and beaten. Nevertheless, he claimed his right to be himself—whatever the consequences. The Naked Civil Servant is both a comic masterpiece and a unique testament to the resilience of the human spirit.

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À propos de l?auteur

Quentin Crisp was born on Christmas Day 1908 in Sutton, a suburb of London. After leaving school he became an illustrator and a designer of book covers before spending the next 35 years of his life as an artists' model. In 1981 he moved to New York City and became a resident alien, living in a one bedroom flat in Chelsea which he famously never cleaned ("After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse"), and describing himself as a "resident waif." He died in 1999, just one month short of his 91st birthday.