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Bug-Jargal is a novel by the French writer Victor Hugo. First published in 1826, it is a reworked version of an earlier short story of the same name published in the Hugo brothers' magazine Le Conservateur littéraire in 1820.
- Victor Hugo
- 1826
Bug-Jargal, albeit an overly-romantic novella, measures the quality of humanity in its capacity for true justice, honor, friendship, sacrifice, love, vengeance and failure. Hugo bases the story on the Haitian slave uprising in the late 18th century.
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Jul 26, 2004 · Victor Hugo’s Bug-Jargal (1826) is one of the most important works of nineteenth-century colonial fiction, and quite possibly the most sustained novelistic treatment of the Haitian Revolution...
A mysterious slave named Pierrot (later revealed as Bug-Jargal) abducts her, and an odyssey in the mountains unfolds. Bug-Jargal, at first D’Auverney’s enemy, is instead shown to be both a fierce maroon and a loyal ally to the young Frenchman with an equal affection for Maria that motivates him to protect her from the rebellion’s violence.
Mar 27, 2008 · Bug-Jargal : Victor Hugo : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Victor Hugo. Publication date. 1826. Publisher. J. Hetzel. Collection. europeanlibraries. Book from the collections of. Oxford University. Language. English.
Bug-Jargal, the hero, is a negro, a slave in the household of a planter. He is secretly in love with his master's daughter, a poetic child, betrothed to her cousin, Leopold...
