A burnt-out case
/ Graham Greene
- New York : Penguin Books :1977, c1960
- 198 p. ; 20 cm.
Querry, a world-famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference : he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. 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. The the white community finds out who Querry is...