Matthew's review
A Burnt-Out Case
by Graham Greene
Matthew's review
A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
Matthew's review
rating:
recommended for: everyone
this book is one of the greatest novels that I have ever read and immediately made me want to read more by Graham Greene. In the novel, the protagonist (if that's the appropriate term for him), Querry, travels to a leproserie in the heart of Africa to escape from his past and his reputation; in this act, he is constantly portrayed as a self-sacrificial saint by the priests at the leproserie: a reputation that he neither wants nor feels he deserve. A remarkable novel about spirituality, god, and coined the phrase "aridity of the soul" that makes its theme accessible to any reader.
