A Cup of Rage
by Raduan Nassar
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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.Tags
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Despite some misgivings, I was seduced by this book's small format, its New Directions credentials, and its Lebanese-Brazilian author. I kind of wish I'd left it on the shelves.
I was promised an "intense, erotic masterpiece." What I got was violent macho posturing and long unnatural diatribes and no empathy for any characters anywhere except maybe the barely there servants. Despite being only 65 pages I found myself having to grind through the long chapter "The Explosion." Had the book been any longer I should have given it up, but I kept scolding myself to press on -- surely any moment a corner will be turned and I'll understand why this book has gathered such praise.
I don't understand. And I'm entirely okay with that.
I was promised an "intense, erotic masterpiece." What I got was violent macho posturing and long unnatural diatribes and no empathy for any characters anywhere except maybe the barely there servants. Despite being only 65 pages I found myself having to grind through the long chapter "The Explosion." Had the book been any longer I should have given it up, but I kept scolding myself to press on -- surely any moment a corner will be turned and I'll understand why this book has gathered such praise.
I don't understand. And I'm entirely okay with that.
Short and furious, but I'm not sure I got it. Some blistering passages, though.
Meu primeiro Nassar. Arrebatador
Painful and angry, love yes but a lot of pain
Alles barst los in deze korte novelle, waarin tegelijkertijd alles en niets te lezen is en een minzame liefdesgeschiedenis plots uitmondt in spervuur van absurde en almaar politieker wordende verwijten tussen een man en een vrouw. Minder toegankelijk dan gehoopt.
Sep 10, 2018Dutch
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Raduan Nassar was born in 1935, in Pindorama, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. He studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has been an acclaimed literary author since 1985. Two of his major works translated into English are Ancient Tillage (1975) and A Cup of Rage (1978), a novella. His other works include Um Copo show more de Colera and Menina a Caminho. He also worked as a journalist and editor for the newspaper he founded with his brothers, Jornal do Bairro. In 2011, he donated his entire commercial property to the agricultural departments of the Federal University of São Carlos and retired to a smaller farm. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Gallimard, Folio (6266)
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- Canonical title
- A Cup of Rage
- Original title
- Um copo de cólera
- Original publication date
- 1978
- Original language
- Portuguese
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Romance
- DDC/MDS
- 869.342 — Literature & rhetoric Spanish Literature Literatures of Portuguese and Galician languages Portuguese fiction 20th Century 1945-1999
- LCC
- PQ9698.24 .A838 .C6 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Portuguese literature Provincial, local, colonial, etc. Brazil
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- 10 — Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Spanish, Swedish
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- Paper, Ebook
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- 20
- ASINs
- 3
