A Burnt-Out Case
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st english ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
A masterwork of mid-twentieth-century literary fiction, Graham Greene's A Burnt-Out Case chronicles the spiritual and psychological unraveling of Querry, a world-famous architect who abandons his celebrity and travels deep into the Congo to a remote leper colony, seeking anonymity and an escape from a life that has lost all meaning. With unflinching precision, Greene illustrates the condition of a man so thoroughly emptied of faith, passion, and desire that he mirrors the lepers around him — souls physically consumed by disease, just as Querry has been consumed by a profound inner void. The novel's tone is characteristically Greenean: brooding, morally serious, and suffused with a dark irony that refuses easy consolation. As Querry's carefully guarded isolation is shattered by the intrusions of the outside world — journalists, missionaries, and a dangerously naive admirer — Greene argues that the modern soul cannot simply opt out of the human condition, no matter how far it flees. A searing meditation on faith, celebrity, and the nature of spiritual exhaustion, A Burnt-Out Case stands as one of Greene's most autobiographical and emotionally raw works.
Author: Graham Greene
Format: Hardback
Published: 1961, Heinemann
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st english ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
A masterwork of mid-twentieth-century literary fiction, Graham Greene's A Burnt-Out Case chronicles the spiritual and psychological unraveling of Querry, a world-famous architect who abandons his celebrity and travels deep into the Congo to a remote leper colony, seeking anonymity and an escape from a life that has lost all meaning. With unflinching precision, Greene illustrates the condition of a man so thoroughly emptied of faith, passion, and desire that he mirrors the lepers around him — souls physically consumed by disease, just as Querry has been consumed by a profound inner void. The novel's tone is characteristically Greenean: brooding, morally serious, and suffused with a dark irony that refuses easy consolation. As Querry's carefully guarded isolation is shattered by the intrusions of the outside world — journalists, missionaries, and a dangerously naive admirer — Greene argues that the modern soul cannot simply opt out of the human condition, no matter how far it flees. A searing meditation on faith, celebrity, and the nature of spiritual exhaustion, A Burnt-Out Case stands as one of Greene's most autobiographical and emotionally raw works.