Graham Greene A Burnt-Out Case

About A Burnt-Out Case

Graham Greene's A Burnt-Out Case (1960) is his most existentially desolate novel — Querry, a world-famous Catholic architect who has lost all faith, retreating to a remote Congo leper colony in search of nothing. The title refers to a leper whose disease has burned out, leaving them permanently damaged but no longer infectious — Greene's metaphor for a man who has exhausted every form of belief. His most nakedly autobiographical novel, written during a period of profound personal crisis.