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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 est le premier roman de Victor Hugo. Écrit par l’auteur, en quinze jours à la suite d’un pari, à l’âge de seize ans, le conte Bug-Jargal paraît dans la revue Le Conservateur littéraire en 1820 mais le roman, version remaniée du conte, ne sera édité pour la première fois qu’en 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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- Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885
- Bug-Jargal
- Spain: Calpe,1920.
- Galiano, D. Alcalá
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 by...
- Victor Hugo
- Chris Bongie
- Chris Bongie
Jul 2, 2024 · bug-jargal by victor hugo. Publication date 1894 Publisher george barrie and son Collection internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English Volume
This chapter examines the way in which Victor Hugo's youthful and politically slippery novel about the Haitian Revolution, Bug-Jargal (1826), was appropriated by a far ‘lesser’ British writer and transformed into a text, The Slave-King (1833), that is straightforwardly committed to the abolitionist cause. It addresses questions such as ...
