A Burnt-out Case (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) - Softcover

Greene, Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140185399 ISBN 13: 9780140185393

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1991

Synopsis

Querry, a world-famous architect, is the victim of an attack of indifference, no longer finding meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he loses himself in work for the lepers. As he helps the lepers, so he approaches a self-cure.

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Review:

"Mr. Greene's extraordinary power of plot-making, of suspense and of narration...moves continuously both in time and space and in emotion." -"The Times "Graham Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature." "-- John Le Carre

From the Publisher:

'In a class by himself' William Golding
Mr Greene s extraordinary power of plot-making, of suspense and of narration moves continuously both in time and space and in emotion Angus Wilson, The Times

When Querry, a world-famous architect, finds he no longer enjoys life or takes pleasure in art he sets of an a voyage. Arriving anonymously at a leper colony in the Congo he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a burnt-out case , a leper mutilated by the disease and amputation. Querry slowly moves towards a cure, his mind getting clearer as he works for the colony. However, in the heat of the tropics, no relationship with a married woman, however blameless, will ever be taken as innocent

In a class by himself.. the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man s consciousness and anxiety William Golding

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0140185399
• ISBN 13: 9780140185393
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208