Vice Consul
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"The Vice-Consul" is an important novel in Marguerite Duras's India series. Duras said: "This is the first book of my life." The story takes place on the banks of the Ganges. The French vice-consul in Lahore fired into Shalimar Gardens late at night. The Vice-Consul awaited a new appointment in Calcutta. In loneliness, he fell madly in love with the ambassador's wife Anna-Mary Street, the most outstanding woman in Calcutta. The monsoon is coming, and the white people in Calcutta are bored. There are whispers everywhere about the madness of the vice-consul and the affair of the ambassador's wife. At the dull reception party, the vice-consul was surrounded by this sound. He was the embodiment of loneliness, going crazy in loneliness. The tiny sounds drowned him, and he left melancholy in a frenzy...
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