A burnt-out case
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A burnt-out case
（Penguin twentieth-century classics）
Penguin Books in association with William Heinemann, 1975
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First pub. in Penguin Books 1963
Reset and repr. from the Collected edition 1975
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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. Then the white community finds out who Querry is...
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