A Burnt-Out Case
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A famous architect struggling with a crisis of faith escapes to a leper colony in the Congo, in Graham Greene's "greatest novel" ( Time ). Querry is a world-renowned architect noted for his magnificent churches, each designed not for the glory of God, but for the satisfaction of self. Suddenly infected with indifference, he has abandoned his pursuit of pleasure. Now he has reached the end of desire at the end of the world-a colony of lepers in the remote jungles of Africa. Here, under the show more guidance of Doctor Colin, a fellow atheist, Querry's consideration of the sick could be something close to a cure for his own suffering. So too, it first seems, could a local plantation owner's lonely and abused wife-Querry's unlikely confessor. But when Querry reluctantly agrees to build a hospital and his good intentions brand him a modern-day saint, all the intrusive and dangerous piety of civilization returns. And this time it could be inescapable. From "the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety" comes Graham Greene's celebrated novel about the consequences of conviction, the sickness of the soul, and the tenuous endurance of the human spirit (William Golding). show lessTags
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Graham Greene is one of my favorite authors, primarily because his books (at least those I've read) expound a central theme through well-executed literary devices, providing a richer reading experience. In A Burnt-Out Case, Greene uses leprosy, particularly the physical scars left after the disease has run its course, as a motif for the emotional damage the novel's protagonist, Querry*, has suffered as a result of his decadent lifestyle. In his masterpieces (The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter), this style is the subtle backdrop to the action of the story. In A Burnt-Out Case, it overtakes the story, to the novel's detriment. The ancillary characters actually verbalize the motif, likening Querry to his servant, Deo Gratis, show more who is a cured victim of leprosy. This heavy-handed approach gives the novel a didactic quality that distracts from an otherwise interesting exploration of faith through the viewpoints of both devout believers and atheists. Even the novel's two epigrams bludgeon the reader with an explanation of the book, making the process of reading it one of observation rather than of discovery.
I won't belabor the novel's other deficiencies (extended dialogue and monologue also serve as thematic cudgels), because it is still a good read. The climax results from a series of nondescript events that are assigned incorrect meaning in varying degrees of maliciousness by both the participants and witnesses. A summary of this plot would read like an airport novel, but Greene builds to it slowly and deliberately. When it finally and suddenly happens, you are not surprised, because Greene has lead you unsuspectingly to the only conclusion the novel could have. In that sense this reads a little like detective fiction, where the solution was always right there in front of you.
Although leprosy has been around for all of recorded history, its stigma has diminished significantly. That diminishment seems an apt motif for A Burnt-Out Case, which is an interesting but lesser version of Greene's other works, one less deserving of attention but still worth a read if you have time.
* - I particularly admire the suggestiveness Greene supplies through his protagonist's name - sounding like a form of question (query) and prey (quarry), both of which are apt descriptions of the role he plays in the novel. show less
I won't belabor the novel's other deficiencies (extended dialogue and monologue also serve as thematic cudgels), because it is still a good read. The climax results from a series of nondescript events that are assigned incorrect meaning in varying degrees of maliciousness by both the participants and witnesses. A summary of this plot would read like an airport novel, but Greene builds to it slowly and deliberately. When it finally and suddenly happens, you are not surprised, because Greene has lead you unsuspectingly to the only conclusion the novel could have. In that sense this reads a little like detective fiction, where the solution was always right there in front of you.
Although leprosy has been around for all of recorded history, its stigma has diminished significantly. That diminishment seems an apt motif for A Burnt-Out Case, which is an interesting but lesser version of Greene's other works, one less deserving of attention but still worth a read if you have time.
* - I particularly admire the suggestiveness Greene supplies through his protagonist's name - sounding like a form of question (query) and prey (quarry), both of which are apt descriptions of the role he plays in the novel. show less
A very solid novel set in the Congo at the tail end of Belgian rule there in which Querry, a prominent architect who specialized in Catholic churches, shows up at a leper colony in the middle of nowhere with no explanation and very little desire to go on living. "A Burnt-Out Case" is, among other things, a study in character, a meditation on the necessity of having a purpose in life, a rumination on the nature of divine and human love, and a tragedy. Greene, as always, shows a journalist's eye for detail and a theologian's concern with serious subjects. It's however, that the best -- or most admirable, perhaps -- Catholics in this book are those with the fewest theological leanings or concern for doctrine. It's interesting to witness as show more one often does in Greene's novels, a colonialism in obvious decline, and the scenes set at the leper colony, which show the work of the courageous, if non-believing, Doctor Colin, are very affecting. Even so, I wouldn't call this one a fun read. Like most of Greene's "serious" novels, like "The Heart of the Matter," the problems here are largely moral in nature, and to read it is to see its characters suffer in the grip of an unremitting moral tension. Greene's too good a writer to make his characters into mere stand-ins for their theological positions, but this still doesn't make things comfortable for the reader. It's not that I wouldn't recommend "A Burnt-Out Case," it's that I was sort of glad when I finally finished it. It's a long two-hundred or so pages. Not one for the beach or the subway, this. show less
There was something about the title that drew me in, seemingly apt and fitting in this modern age of burnout, if for different reasons than what Greene had in the middle of the 20th century. Nevertheless, our modern experience of burnout leads to similar kinds of burnt-out cases. The treatments may differ, perhaps less centered on religious faith than Greene’s account, but still focused on replacing the burnt-out parts with something. The protagonist’s parallels with “the mutilated” living in the leproserie where he winds up is disturbing but thought provoking. Once the disease burns out, those who survive may attempt to make themselves “whole” again with coverings, prosthetics, canes, and staffs, but they don’t restore show more “wholeness” so much as cover and give the appearance from a distance. The protagonist also seeks wholeness from the parts of his life burned out by a loss of ambition, desire, motivation, faith that resulted in him becoming the archetype of a “mutilated” (post?)modernist man.
Overall, it’s an engaging and psychologically introspective book. The plot might not be the most scintillating and the characters might not be all that engaging, but there is plenty here to be said and thought about. show less
Overall, it’s an engaging and psychologically introspective book. The plot might not be the most scintillating and the characters might not be all that engaging, but there is plenty here to be said and thought about. show less
‘Oh yes, make no mistake, one does. One comes to an end.’
‘What are you here for then? To make love to a black woman?’
‘No. One comes to an end of that too. Possibly sex and a vocation are born and die together. Let me roll bandages or carry buckets. All I want is to pass the time.’
‘I thought you wanted to be of use.’
‘Listen,’ Querry said and then fell silent.
‘I am listening.’
To me this quote perfectly describes A Burnt Out Case - it is a story about communication and miscommunication.
When Querry, a world famous architect, struggles to find any interest in life he decides to walk out and take up living in a leper colony in the Congo. Fed up with fame and having to cater to taste of people who do not share his show more vision or ability to imagine, he hopes that no one would recognise him, and all he wants to do is to be of use to the people around him.
However, things don't go to plan. Even at the leper colony he encounters a band of expats who badger him about his past life. As little by little the reasons for his burn-out are revealed, Querry starts to recover from the depression he experienced only to be confronted with the same paradox he tried to flee from.
"‘Two of your churches are famous. Didn’t you care what happened inside them – to people?’
‘The acoustics had to be good of course. The high altar had to be visible to all. But people hated them. They said they weren’t designed for prayer. They meant that they were not Roman or Gothic or Byzantine. And in a year they had cluttered them up with their cheap plaster saints; they took out my plain windows and put in stained glass dedicated to dead pork-packers who had contributed to diocesan funds, and when they had destroyed my space and my light, they were able to pray again, and they even became proud of what they had spoilt.'"
3.5* really. show less
‘What are you here for then? To make love to a black woman?’
‘No. One comes to an end of that too. Possibly sex and a vocation are born and die together. Let me roll bandages or carry buckets. All I want is to pass the time.’
‘I thought you wanted to be of use.’
‘Listen,’ Querry said and then fell silent.
‘I am listening.’
To me this quote perfectly describes A Burnt Out Case - it is a story about communication and miscommunication.
When Querry, a world famous architect, struggles to find any interest in life he decides to walk out and take up living in a leper colony in the Congo. Fed up with fame and having to cater to taste of people who do not share his show more vision or ability to imagine, he hopes that no one would recognise him, and all he wants to do is to be of use to the people around him.
However, things don't go to plan. Even at the leper colony he encounters a band of expats who badger him about his past life. As little by little the reasons for his burn-out are revealed, Querry starts to recover from the depression he experienced only to be confronted with the same paradox he tried to flee from.
"‘Two of your churches are famous. Didn’t you care what happened inside them – to people?’
‘The acoustics had to be good of course. The high altar had to be visible to all. But people hated them. They said they weren’t designed for prayer. They meant that they were not Roman or Gothic or Byzantine. And in a year they had cluttered them up with their cheap plaster saints; they took out my plain windows and put in stained glass dedicated to dead pork-packers who had contributed to diocesan funds, and when they had destroyed my space and my light, they were able to pray again, and they even became proud of what they had spoilt.'"
3.5* really. show less
I'm finishing up with the volumes of Graham Greene I've missed reading so far. And this is one of them. Frankly, I'm surprised how much I enjoyed it. But that is always the case with Greene. In starting out his novels, I always think that "this one" will disappoint in light of the quality of those I've read up to then. But then it doesn't. The author writes at such a sustained level of greatness.
In A Burnt Out Case, Greene captures the utter exhaustion with life his hero, Querry, feels. Not even escaping to a leper colony in the remotest part of Africa allows him to escape. Always on Querry's trail is his past. And the leper colony is just one stop short of being far enough away from that past.
The plot and the storyline are especially show more efficient. At the end, Querry hasn't traveled far, geographically, in this novel. And neither does he travel very far spiritually. Life will not let him. Like one of the mutilated lepers, Querry has no where else to go. show less
In A Burnt Out Case, Greene captures the utter exhaustion with life his hero, Querry, feels. Not even escaping to a leper colony in the remotest part of Africa allows him to escape. Always on Querry's trail is his past. And the leper colony is just one stop short of being far enough away from that past.
The plot and the storyline are especially show more efficient. At the end, Querry hasn't traveled far, geographically, in this novel. And neither does he travel very far spiritually. Life will not let him. Like one of the mutilated lepers, Querry has no where else to go. show less
Querry is a world-famous architect who travels to the Congo to get away from everything and everyone. He travels as far as he can away from civilization and ends up at a leper colony run by Catholic priests. They allow him to stay, and he helps where he can. Since most of the famous buildings he designed were churches, everyone assumes that Querry is a highly religious man who has come to Africa to help out of the goodness of his heart. No one believes him when he tries to persuade them that the opposite is true: he believes in no god and considers himself to be completely incapable of love.
This is the third (or maybe the fourth?) book that I’ve read by Greene, and up until now, I’ve said that we just don’t get along. His other show more books aren’t bad, they’re just not my cup of tea. I was pleasantly surprised by this one, however, because I really liked it. It drew me in and gave me a lot to think about.
I marked quite a few quotes that I liked, and I’ll share a couple of them here:
“It occurred to him that one could still feel the reflection of another’s pain when one had ceased to feel one’s own.”
“To build a church when you don’t believe in a god seems a little indecent doesn’t it? When I discovered I was doing that, I accepted a commission for a city hall, but I didn’t believe in politics either. You never saw such an absurd box of concrete and glass as I landed on the poor city square. You see I discovered what seemed only to be a loose thread in my jacket—I pulled it and all the jacket began to unwind. Perhaps it’s true that you can’t believe in a god without loving a human being or love a human being without believing in a god. They use the phrase ‘make love,’ don’t they? But which of us are creative enough to ‘make’ love? We can only be loved—if we are lucky.” show less
This is the third (or maybe the fourth?) book that I’ve read by Greene, and up until now, I’ve said that we just don’t get along. His other show more books aren’t bad, they’re just not my cup of tea. I was pleasantly surprised by this one, however, because I really liked it. It drew me in and gave me a lot to think about.
I marked quite a few quotes that I liked, and I’ll share a couple of them here:
“It occurred to him that one could still feel the reflection of another’s pain when one had ceased to feel one’s own.”
“To build a church when you don’t believe in a god seems a little indecent doesn’t it? When I discovered I was doing that, I accepted a commission for a city hall, but I didn’t believe in politics either. You never saw such an absurd box of concrete and glass as I landed on the poor city square. You see I discovered what seemed only to be a loose thread in my jacket—I pulled it and all the jacket began to unwind. Perhaps it’s true that you can’t believe in a god without loving a human being or love a human being without believing in a god. They use the phrase ‘make love,’ don’t they? But which of us are creative enough to ‘make’ love? We can only be loved—if we are lucky.” show less
I am a bit puzzled that the critics do not include this novel with
his "Catholic" ones, because the protagonist is a lapsed Catholic, the book's themes are of a religious and moral nature, and the action takes place at a leper colony in the Congo that has priests and nuns attending to the spiritual needs of the patients.
One of the better novels from his later years that seems to have been
overlooked by critics and readers alike, but those who have read it tend to give it high marks. The book is about the existential crisis that faces Querry, presumably a French or Belgian architect. It would seem that the characters are all speaking French, for Greene tells us when they are speaking English.
Querry almost right away on arrival faces show more questions and assumptions from a doctor, a factory owner, and a journalist who all seem determined to find out why he has come to this remote place. The factory owner and journalist put demands on Querry which make him uncomfortable and wanting to be left alone. But there is much more to that when the factory owner's wife brings the novel to its climactic events. It might seem contrived, however, as each character represents a type that Greene as puppeteer uses to get his points across.
Greene's writing is superb, and as such (along with his themes) puts him in the company of the many great 20th century authors who have been ignored by the Nobel Prize people. This one is not just for Greene completists; not his best, but thought-provoking and humane. show less
his "Catholic" ones, because the protagonist is a lapsed Catholic, the book's themes are of a religious and moral nature, and the action takes place at a leper colony in the Congo that has priests and nuns attending to the spiritual needs of the patients.
One of the better novels from his later years that seems to have been
overlooked by critics and readers alike, but those who have read it tend to give it high marks. The book is about the existential crisis that faces Querry, presumably a French or Belgian architect. It would seem that the characters are all speaking French, for Greene tells us when they are speaking English.
Querry almost right away on arrival faces show more questions and assumptions from a doctor, a factory owner, and a journalist who all seem determined to find out why he has come to this remote place. The factory owner and journalist put demands on Querry which make him uncomfortable and wanting to be left alone. But there is much more to that when the factory owner's wife brings the novel to its climactic events. It might seem contrived, however, as each character represents a type that Greene as puppeteer uses to get his points across.
Greene's writing is superb, and as such (along with his themes) puts him in the company of the many great 20th century authors who have been ignored by the Nobel Prize people. This one is not just for Greene completists; not his best, but thought-provoking and humane. show less
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he somewhat forbidding title of Graham Greene's new novel is a term used for those victims of leprosy who can be cured because the disease has eaten about all that it wants -- toes, ears, fingers. They no longer suffer the excruciating pains of those who undergo cure with their bodies intact. Pain is the alternative to mutilation.
"A Burnt-Out Case" is a fascinating study of the relationship of show more suffering, especially freely accepted suffering -- to wholeness. Greene has set his novel in a remote African leprosery run by nuns and priests. They have as their unexpected guest an internationally famous architect named Querry who arrives incognito, trying to escape as far as possible from his past.
Querry is himself a burnt-out case. He is no longer moved to design a building or sleep with a woman. His love of women was really self-love, and his artistic self-expression was the kind that consumes the self. Even when he was creating modern churches, Querry's art was inhuman, a matter of space and light and textures, with no feeling either for people or prayers. Now whatever fed his vocation has ceased to exist. In his terrible aloneness and deadness he can neither suffer nor laugh.
The novel tells the story of Querry's gradual recovery, or what would have been recovery if the world he tried to flee had let him alone. But a celebrated journalist seeks out Querry, a fat man who "carries his corruption on the surface of his skin like phosphorous." He wants a story that will have the appeal of the stories about Dr. Schweitzer at Lanbarene. With the aid of a neighboring colon, he cooks up a sensational story which falsifies and sentimentalizes the simple, good relationship between Querry and Querry's crippled leper servant. And then Querry's relationship with the colon's pretty young wife is falsified in another way that brings the novel to an ironic and violent close.
The events, however, are less important than the conversations about pain and wholeness, self-love and selflessness, belief and disbelief show a changed and milder mood in Greene. Though this does not necessarily make it a better novel, "A Burnt-Out Case" is free from the theological arrogance, the baiting of rationalists, the melodramatic use of attempted bargains with God which gave a peculiar edge and intensity to Greene's earlier religious fiction. Speaking particularly of his "The End of the Affair," Martin Turnell once wrote: "It is impossible not to be struck by the vast place occupied by hate and the tiny place reserved for charity in the work of contemporary Catholic novelists."
In "A Burnt-Out Case" the balance has shifted. Greene no longer tries to make both humanity and Christianity seem as distasteful as possible. There is ample charity both in the sense of good works and of affectionate understanding.
The sympathetic characters are the religiously uncommitted doctor with his special sense of what Christian love means and the priests who are more interested in curing the natives' bodies that in regulating their sexual mores, who would rather talk about the practicalities of being useful than about the state of each other's souls. The unsympathetic characters are the scrupulously self-righteous. The most repellent character is the spiritually and socially ambitious colon who prides himself on his informed Catholicism. He is a former seminarian, a spoiled priest, morbidly preoccupied with the rights, duties and symbolism of Christian marriage.
Though she plays such an important part in the plot, the colon's young wife is rather lightly sketched in, as are some of the other characters. This is not a novel of great intensity of feeling or one much concerned with the violently changing Africa which is its locale. "A Burnt-Out Case" does not have the color or richness or freshness of detail of "Brighton Rock," "The Power and the Glory" and "The Heart of the Matter." In its quietness, its retrospective air, the parabolic quality of its plot, it is more like Camus' "The Fall." The protagonist's tiredness and detachment affect the novel as a whole. And yet, though Greene does not seem to be trying very hard so far as the story-telling is concerned, though he is not practicing to the full the arts of the novelist, he does nevertheless out of his own humanity make this a very appealing novel, wise, gentle and sympathetic. show less
"A Burnt-Out Case" is a fascinating study of the relationship of show more suffering, especially freely accepted suffering -- to wholeness. Greene has set his novel in a remote African leprosery run by nuns and priests. They have as their unexpected guest an internationally famous architect named Querry who arrives incognito, trying to escape as far as possible from his past.
Querry is himself a burnt-out case. He is no longer moved to design a building or sleep with a woman. His love of women was really self-love, and his artistic self-expression was the kind that consumes the self. Even when he was creating modern churches, Querry's art was inhuman, a matter of space and light and textures, with no feeling either for people or prayers. Now whatever fed his vocation has ceased to exist. In his terrible aloneness and deadness he can neither suffer nor laugh.
The novel tells the story of Querry's gradual recovery, or what would have been recovery if the world he tried to flee had let him alone. But a celebrated journalist seeks out Querry, a fat man who "carries his corruption on the surface of his skin like phosphorous." He wants a story that will have the appeal of the stories about Dr. Schweitzer at Lanbarene. With the aid of a neighboring colon, he cooks up a sensational story which falsifies and sentimentalizes the simple, good relationship between Querry and Querry's crippled leper servant. And then Querry's relationship with the colon's pretty young wife is falsified in another way that brings the novel to an ironic and violent close.
The events, however, are less important than the conversations about pain and wholeness, self-love and selflessness, belief and disbelief show a changed and milder mood in Greene. Though this does not necessarily make it a better novel, "A Burnt-Out Case" is free from the theological arrogance, the baiting of rationalists, the melodramatic use of attempted bargains with God which gave a peculiar edge and intensity to Greene's earlier religious fiction. Speaking particularly of his "The End of the Affair," Martin Turnell once wrote: "It is impossible not to be struck by the vast place occupied by hate and the tiny place reserved for charity in the work of contemporary Catholic novelists."
In "A Burnt-Out Case" the balance has shifted. Greene no longer tries to make both humanity and Christianity seem as distasteful as possible. There is ample charity both in the sense of good works and of affectionate understanding.
The sympathetic characters are the religiously uncommitted doctor with his special sense of what Christian love means and the priests who are more interested in curing the natives' bodies that in regulating their sexual mores, who would rather talk about the practicalities of being useful than about the state of each other's souls. The unsympathetic characters are the scrupulously self-righteous. The most repellent character is the spiritually and socially ambitious colon who prides himself on his informed Catholicism. He is a former seminarian, a spoiled priest, morbidly preoccupied with the rights, duties and symbolism of Christian marriage.
Though she plays such an important part in the plot, the colon's young wife is rather lightly sketched in, as are some of the other characters. This is not a novel of great intensity of feeling or one much concerned with the violently changing Africa which is its locale. "A Burnt-Out Case" does not have the color or richness or freshness of detail of "Brighton Rock," "The Power and the Glory" and "The Heart of the Matter." In its quietness, its retrospective air, the parabolic quality of its plot, it is more like Camus' "The Fall." The protagonist's tiredness and detachment affect the novel as a whole. And yet, though Greene does not seem to be trying very hard so far as the story-telling is concerned, though he is not practicing to the full the arts of the novelist, he does nevertheless out of his own humanity make this a very appealing novel, wise, gentle and sympathetic. show less
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Born in 1904, Graham Greene was the son of a headmaster and the fourth of six children. Preferring to stay home and read rather than endure the teasing at school that was a by-product of his father's occupation, Greene attempted suicide several times and eventually dropped out of school at the age of 15. His parents sent him to an analyst in show more London who recommended he try writing as therapy. He completed his first novel by the time he graduated from college in 1925. Greene wrote both entertainments and serious novels. Catholicism was a recurring theme in his work, notable examples being The Power and the Glory (1940) and The End of the Affair (1951). Popular suspense novels include: The Heart of the Matter, Our Man in Havana and The Quiet American. Greene was also a world traveler and he used his experiences as the basis for many books. One popular example, Journey Without Maps (1936), was based on a trip through the jungles of Liberia. Greene also wrote and adapted screenplays, including that of the 1949 film, The Third Man, which starred Orson Welles. He died in Vevey, Switzerland in 1991. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Un caso bruciato
- Original title
- A Burnt-Out Case
- Original publication date
- 1960
- People/Characters
- Querry
- Important places
- Africa; Congo
- Epigraph
- 'Io non mori', e non rimasi vivo.' (I did not die, yet
nothing of life remained.)
DANTE
'Within limits of normality, every individual loves
himself. In cases where he has a deformity or
abnormali... (show all)ty or develops it later, his own aesthetic
sense revolts and he develops a sort of disgust
towards himself. Though with time he becomes
reconciled to his deformities, it is only at the
conscious level. His sub-conscious mind, which
continues to bear the mark of injury, brings about
certain changes in his whole personality, making him
suspicious of society.'
R. V. WARDEKAR in a pamphlet on leprosy - Dedication
- To Docteur Michel Lachat
- First words
- The cabin-passenger wrote in his diary a parody of Descartes: 'I feel discomfort, therefore I am alive,' then sat pen in hand with no more to record.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"He's infected all right," Doctor Colin said. "Feel the patches here and here. But you needn't worry," he added in a tone of suppressed rage, "we shall be able to cure him in a year or two, and I can promise you that there will be no mutilations."
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