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Bug-Jargal
by Victor Hugo
‫ناتسادلاگراژگوب‬
‫تفارش‬
‫یناسنا‬
‫تسا‬
‫یزادنارب یاهبوشآ ردهکینامدرم‬
‫یتسرپداژن و یرادهدربماظن‬
‫یتفرعم‬
‫دنراد صاخ‬.
‫دننام یم دوخ فرحیاپ‬.‫هکنیانودب‬
‫دننکاضمایذغاکایدنهدبیلوق‬.
‫تیصخش ود‬
‫یاهتهابشیلصا‬
‫ناشتسوپگنرطقفدنرادیدایز‬
‫دنکیمقرف‬.
‫دنتسه نزکیقشاع ود ره‬
‫یگدرب ود ره و‬
‫روفنم ارتنوشخ و‬
‫هب اریگدازآ و دنهد یم ارناشناج یدازآیارب ود ره ودنناد یم‬
‫دنناسر یمتیاهن‬.
‫ناتساد‬
‫رفن ودنیمه لوح‬
‫هتبلا واهنآتینهذ و‬
‫طیارش‬
‫ینوماریپ‬
‫بالقناهک‬
‫یتسرپداژندض‬
‫درذگ یم تسه یرادهدرب و‬
|An unexpected Hugo's novel. One can tell this is one of his first works. Not because it is not well written or so. As
in every Hugo's novel, the language is just exquisit, but he doesn't get as deep as he later got describing human
emotions and feelings, as you can see, for instance, in "Notre Dame de Paris". Beside, the subject, the place, the
characters, didn't seem to me what I would expect from Hugo. So different.. but yet so good! One thing:
sometimes, during the reading, I couldn't tell whether Hugo was defending freedom and human rights (some of
main Hugo's favorite themes), or he was on the side of the french masters. Nice novel, easy reading.|Night and the
day, when united,
Bring forth the light.
I am an addict.
Yet I do not scrounge for my fix, nor do I hope for it. But when I find it, I harken back to all the previous times
when it satisfied me and shiver at the shock of its course. Then again, my drug fills everything and everytime. My
needle and my pipe neither inject nor bellow smoke but rather peel away the layers of exhaustive thinking which
blanket the brilliance of my drug.
needle and my pipe neither inject nor bellow smoke but rather peel away the layers of exhaustive thinking which
blanket the brilliance of my drug.
When concluding a book, certain last sentences release the unutterable radiance of understanding - not an idea or
a smart conjecture, but something already in existence, simply noticed. And I reach the high of a blown mind.
No other writer, for me, deserves my unwavering trust to fulfill my need for this graceful electricity. 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. His protagonist, Captain Leopold
D'Auverney, narrates his experience during the uprising. Hugo knits the entire story in the first-person narrative
style which, in my opinion, adds a certain level of fallibility but humanity to it. I shutter to hear some readers
chastise this work as inexcusably racist when the white Captain, a product of French imperialism and racial
injustice, tells the story! And tell me: if the events dictated from his perspective began as morally obligatory to
sensitive racial issues, what room is left for Hugo to transform the Captain himself? His judgement throughout the
narrative had proven erroneous so why wouldn't we, the reader, condemn him as a bigot with an opportunity for
redemption rather than chastise the book as a promotion for racist sentiments?
Hugo layers his theme of justice and brotherhood through personal and societal levels. After the uprising,
D'Auverney describes the character of the newly formed black army which, after several examples brilliantly
symbolic of mental and physical oppression, simply emulates the oppressions of their white masters. Hugo readily
condemns nearly every suppressive weapon employed by those in power by mirroring their uses by blacks on
whites. Some readers may choose to end their reasoning here and enjoy the ignorant comforts of condemning
one race for attempting to right a wrong with the same wrong - and thereby defending their wrong by displacing
it on those perpetrating the same evil. In either case, the cycle of vengeance never ends! Where some see evil,
reason to fear and hate, I see humanity! I see equality!
Hugo also sees disease - which spreads through all close-quarter groups whether in the grips of battle or the beds
of separate peace.
Pierrot, a slave with a mighty history, patrols these happenings like Dostoevsky's Christ visiting the Spanish
Inquisition. He both commands obedience and the worship of his fellow slaves and befriends our captain. The
nature of their relationship and the intrigue of his character add a particularly romantic, mystical and entirely
fascinating element to the novella, which I will not spoil here. But I found their relationship and the circumstances
which cultivated it starkly different from the relationship between the groups of blacks and whites. For D'Auverney
and Pierrot, two individuals guided by virtue rather than vengeance, love for humanity rather than brother, the
end proved bitter in a bloated and selfish worldly system without space for their substance.
My drug paraphernalia reads, 'Who can tell if the bullets of the enemy nay not have spared his head for his
country's guillotine?' If a man fights an enemy to take their power, he will likely enjoy the praise of those he leads.
But a man who fights to liberate humanity, a true liberation of all life, will not only find an enemy in evil but also in
those he seeks to save. In order to transcend such opposition, at both ends of the power pendulum, the liberator
must honor his code of virtue, as opposed to the approach taken by oppressors, even to an unjust and ungrateful
end for the sake of righteous living under the dictation of justice and love rather than pride, for the sake of all
people whom he endeavors to liberate.
Through both Pierrot and the captain life itself seemed liberated from the chains of injured pride and hateful
recompense. Where both white and black stood enslaved to the guttural urge to take the other eye, to shift power
from one to the other only to perpetrate the same lingering evil, two men willfully succumbed to the graces of
virtue, the abandonment of that evil, and the best of enlightened man.
In this sense, we can all be "the slave become king, the prisoner a liberator."?|Escrito em 1818 quando o autor
tinha apenas 16 anos, só foi publicado em 1825 quando foi reescrito. Fruto de uma aposta onde Victor Hugo foi
desafiado a escrever uma história em 15 dias, tendo sido seu primeiro romance mas o segundo a ser publicado.
A ação se passa em 1791 e narra a revolta dos negros (escravizados)de São Domingos contra os colonos
europeus. O capitão Léopold d'Auverney parece guardar uma grande mágoa e durante um serão é levado por
A ação se passa em 1791 e narra a revolta dos negros (escravizados)de São Domingos contra os colonos
europeus. O capitão Léopold d'Auverney parece guardar uma grande mágoa e durante um serão é levado por
seus soldados a revelar o que teria vivido naquele local que marcou de forma terrível sua vida.
Indicado apenas para fãs do autor como eu, que deseja conhecer seus romances em ordem cronológica.
Praticamente não se reconhece seu estilo aqui mas é interessante verificar sua evolução. Apesar do tema ser
baseado num fato real, o foco foi mesmo a história do capitão envolvendo Bug-Jargal, um líder negro da região,
sem que o autor tenha se preocupado em destrinchar os aspectos políticos, sociais, humanitários e históricos do
episódio como acontece posteriormente em seus romances mais conhecidos.
Histórico de leitura
94% (322 de 344)
"O extremo desespero é uma espécie de morte que faz desejar a autêntica."
3% (11 de 344)
"Quando chegou a sua vez, o capitão Léopold d'Auverney arregalou os olhos e confessou aos presentes que não
conhecia realmente nenhum caso da sua vida que lhes merecesse a atenção."|Don't let my rating sway you too
heavily here - The text of the Hugo novel (and accompanying) story are good - they show signs of where Hugo
would eventually go as a writer - but what really buoys this book is - like almost everything that broadview
publishes - the wealth of supplemental material. But, if you're buying a broadview book then you almost certainly
already know this.
The story itself is good though, set at the beginning of the Haitian slave revolt, you have here a well crafted story
about friendship across racial and class divides. The characters are the best part of the book, which is no real
surprise to those who've read Hugo's later books.
Worth checking out for sure - make sure you read everything broadview has given you though, otherwise you're
cheating yourself!