num_pages: 208
description: Querry, a world-famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of 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. Then the white community finds out who Querry is...For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
language: English
title: A Burnt-Out Case
titlecomplete: A Burnt-Out Case
characters: Dr. Colin, Querry, M. Rycker, Mme. Rycker
genres: Fiction, Religion, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics, Africa
ratings_count: 4862
places: Belgian Congo
publisher: Penguin Classics