BUG-JARGAL - Softcover

HUGO, Victor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2912019419 ISBN 13: 9782912019417

Publisher: BLEU AUTOUR, 2006

Synopsis

Publié ici dans sa version originelle, Bug-Jargal est le premier roman de Victor Hugo, qu’il a écrit à l’âge de seize ans. Il y relate la révolte, en 1791, des noirs de Saint-Domingue et y dénonce l’esclavage.Ce texte à résonance sociale contient déjà en germe l’œuvre future de Victor Hugo. Il constitue aussi un précieux témoignage sur la vie et les préoccupations d’un adolescent de génie. C’est ce que souligne François Graveline dans la présentation de cet ouvrage, le premier d’une série de textes anciens choisis par des écrivains contemporains.

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From the Back Cover

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.

About the Author

Chris Bongie is a Professor of English at Queen’s University, Kingston. He is the author of Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, and the Fin de Siècle and Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature, both from Stanford University Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: BLEU AUTOUR
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: French
• ISBN 10: 2912019419
• ISBN 13: 9782912019417
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 80