Quentin Crisp: Crisperanto

Aus dem Leben eines englischen Exzentrikers. Dt. v. Jörg Trobitius. D 2017 (Nachdruck), 264 S., Broschur, € 13.35
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Fischer
Über lange Zeit war Quentin Crisp die mit Abstand berühmteste (und bestimmt auch mutigste) Tunte im Vereinigten Königreich, denn er war »nicht nur ein Homosexueller, der es zugab, sondern auch einer, dem man es ansah«. Crisp schildert in seiner Autobiografie, wie man als effeminierter Homosexueller (und Dandy) von den 1920er Jahren über den 2. Weltkrieg und die bleierne Nachkriegszeit bis ... Weiterlesen

Quentin Crisp: Resident Alien

The New York Diaries. UK 1997, 225 pp., brochure, € 16.99
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Harper Collins
Quentin Crisp, long famous as »one of the great stately homos of England«, exiled himself to America in 1982 after he discovered that in New York »happiness rains down from the sky«. »Resident Alien« is the often bitingly, amusing account of his love affair with the Big Apple. His affecting words cover topics from politics to prejudice, from the human ... Weiterlesen

Quentin Crisp: How to Become a Virgin

UK 1996, 192 pp., brochure, € 16.99
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Harper Collins
After half a century of metropolitan infamy, Quentin Crisp graduated to international fame when his widely acclaimed autobiography »The Naked Civil Servant« made him a household name, even in respectable households. In this second volume of autobiography, Quentin Crisp describes the wider horizons of his years as a celebrity at home and abroad, and explains his personal philosophy of inaction, ... Weiterlesen

Quentin Crisp: The Naked Civil Servant

UK 1985, 222 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Harper Collins
»As soon as I stepped out of my mother's womb ... I realized that I had made a mistake«, Quentin Crisp declares, giving a small hint of the witty and wry approach he takes toward the life he describes with uninhibited exuberance in this classic autobiography, which is both a comic masterpiece and a unique testament to the resilience of ... Weiterlesen