Greene, Graham.

A burnt-out case / Graham Greene. - New York, The Viking Press, c1961. - 248 p. 21 cm.

When Querry, a world-famous architect, finds he no longer enjoys life or takes pleasure in art he sets off on 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 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.




Architects -- Fiction.
Leprosy -- Fiction.
Missions to leprosy patients -- Africa -- Fiction.
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Fiction.
Psychological Fiction.

Fic G83b 1961