Victor Hugo Bug Jargal
Originally published: 1826
Author: Victor Hugo
Genre: Fiction
Page count: 211
Publisher: Pierre-Jules Hetzel
Country: France
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 a major European author.
This Broadview edition makes Hugo’s novel available in a completely
new English translation, the first in over one hundred years.
Set in 1791, during the first months of a slave revolt that would
eventually lead to the creation of the black republic of Haiti in
1804, Bug-Jargal is a stirring tale of interracial friendship and rivalry,
a provocative account of the ties that bind a young Frenchman to one of
the rebel leaders and the tragic misunderstandings that threaten to sever
those ties completely.
This Broadview edition contains a critical introduction and a broad selection
of appendices, including Hugo’s never-before-translated 1820 short story
“Bug-Jargal,” contemporary reviews of the novel, documents pertaining to
the young Hugo’s poetics and politics, and selections from his source
materials about the Haitian Revolution.
Download Link Here
OR
