Bug-Jargal
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. The novel follows a friendship between the enslaved African prince of the title and a French military officer named Leopold D'Auverney during the tumultuous early years of the Haitian Revolution.
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- Author
- Victor Hugo
- First published
- 1800
- Editions
- 26
- Subjects
- Fiction, Haiti in fiction, History, Capital punishment, Haiti, fiction, Fiction, historical, general
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Key facts
- Book.name
- Bug-Jargal
- Book.image
- Hugo - Bug-Jargal, 1876 0002.jpg
- Book.author
- Victor Hugo
- Book.country
- France
- Book.language
- French, Spanish (minor)
- Book.publisher
- J. Hetzel
- Book.pub_date
- 1826
- Book.english_pub_date
- 1833
- Book.media_type
- Book.pages
- 211
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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. The novel follows a friendship between the enslaved African prince of the title and a French military officer named Leopold D'Auverney during the tumultuous early years of the Haitian Revolution.
Hugo later claimed that the story was to have been part of a collaborative work called Contes sous la Tente (Tales under a Tent), and that he had written it in 1818 (at the age of sixteen) in two weeks; the manuscript is however dated April 1819.