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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.
Apr 12, 2022 · "Bug-Jargal" by Victor Hugo is a novel written in the early 19th century. The story centers around Captain Leopoldo d’Auverney and the complexities of his life during the slave rebellion in Santo Domingo in 1791.
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.
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.
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...
Signs of Origin: Victor Hugo's Bug-Jargal KATHRINE M. BONIN Critics do not agree on how to read Victor Hugo's first work of narrative fic tion, Bug-Jargal (published 1820, revised 1826). Set during the 1791 slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Bug-Jargal relates the
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,...
