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A Burnt-Out Case (1960) is a novel by English author Graham Greene, set in a leper colony on the upper reaches of a tributary of the Congo River in Africa.
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- 1960
- 1960
- Novel
1 de jan. de 2004 · In Greene's A Burnt-out Case, his spiritually spent ("burnt-out") and self-denigrating protagonist, Querry--an architect and womanizer who has lost his passions--finds his actions misinterpreted and himself unwittingly proclaimed a hero, even a saint.
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Querry, a world-famous architect of churches, is burned out by his professional success, contemptuous of his clients, and guilty about the suicide of his mistress. Needing time and a place to recover, Querry, through sheer chance, travels to what he deems the end of the road, a leprosery in remote Africa.
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A Burnt-Out Case, novel by Graham Greene, published in 1961, that examines the possibility of redemption. The story opens as Querry, a European who has lost the ability to connect with emotion or spirituality, arrives at a church-run leprosarium in the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of.
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A burnt-out case. by. Greene, Graham, 1904-1991. Publication date. 1961. Publisher. New York, Viking Press. Collection. printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; inlibrary.
7 de abr. de 1992 · Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a "burnt-out case", a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation....
Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a “burnt-out case”, a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. However, as Querry loses himself in work for the lepers his disease of mind slowly approaches a cure.
