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Bug-Jargal by Victor Hugo

claireh5's review against another edition

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5.0

Très intéressant, les personnages principales sont attachant (notamment Bug-Jargal).
Je ne peux que recommander !

yojen's review against another edition

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1.0

Hugo was young and dumb and wrote some problematic and racist things about a place he had never visited but thought he could extend his european metropole views onto other europeans about the violent Haitian revolution. There's Bug-Jargal, described as the pure "noble savage" who also happens to be a hunky dude, and then there's the only love interest, Maria, who's also pure and virginal but basically some wacky metaphor of the virgin Mary??? Who rarely speaks and is just a hollow shell of a character????

To summarize: almost any colonial "literary" works written between 0 CE - 2018 CE by white people are full of imperialist capitalistic brainwashing nonsense.

Thank you for reading this dissertation.

kijoteelamancha's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.25