2.5
A Cup of Rage
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A small, furious masterpiece of dominance and submission, longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize
A pair of lovers—a young female journalist and an older man who owns an isolated farm in Brazil—spend the night together. The next day they proceed to destroy each other. Amid vitriolic insults and scorching cruelty, their sexual adventure turns into a savage power game between two warring egos. This intense, erotic masterpiece—written by one of Brazil’s most highly regarded modernists—explores alienation, arrogance, machismo meltdown, the desire to dominate, and the wish to be dominated.Download the free Fable app
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2.5
“I mean not bad but not necessarily mind blowing . Some decent spice with a weird class dominating type ego battle? Definitely could be fleshed out and a little less cringe”
“this writing style was hard to digest but so worth it. divided in to seven chapters that are only one sentence each, a sentence that spans many pages, reading this definitely requires a lot of focus and work. but it works so well. in a book that feels almost claustrophobic through its intensity, it follows a pair of lovers in brazil over a 24 hour period - spending the night together before destroying each other the following day in a way that explores power dynamics through intimacy and vulnerability.”
“didn't like this thing at all -- feels pretty shallow and lazy in its exploration of power dynamics and very unsatisfying in its psychosexual struggle, tension entirely limp, flaccid. hard to escape such an overwhelmingly assholic POV, intentional or not, because it ultimately just feels like an exercise in finding bad words to say to women... while flexing a "large member" with little to retaliate.
it's really just unconvincing and forced, there's accusations of being a fascist towards the narrator from her but it doesn't really mean anything, doesn't really result in anything. really flatly dislike Nassar's prose from what I'm seeing here -- willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and blame translation woes, but it's clumsy, tight fisted, lacks rhythm, lacks bite, lacks much of anything. being only 47 pages long and no more is a sort of salt in the wound.
but I guess it's mercifully short.
on paper this is something I should do be interested in and it's pretty shocking to me that it failed so harshly at more-or-less all of it.”
““get lost, carcass!”
‘my hygiene stops me from wiping my arse on your humanism’
and then they kiss.”
About Raduan Nassar
Raduan Nassar was born in 1935 in Pindorama, in the state of São Paolo, Brazil. A Cup of Rage and Ancient Tillage are his two major literary works. Raised in a Lebanese immigrant family, Nassar attended law school at the University of São Paolo and was a journalist and editor for the newspaper Jornal de Bairro. Although hailed around the world as a major writer, Nassar has led a private existence since 1985, dedicated to farming and livestock production.
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Stefan Tobler
Born in Belém, Brazil, Stefan Tobler is the publisher of And Other Stories and, whenever time permits, a translator from Portuguese and German. His translation of Arno Geiger’s The Old King in His Exile was shortlisted for both the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize and Schlegel-Tieck Prize, and his other translations include the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize-shortlisted Água Viva by Clarice Lispector and the Man Booker International Prize finalist A Cup of Rage by Raduan Nassar.
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