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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/interviews/language-behind-short-brutal-affair-interview-translator-stefan-tobler/"></div>By <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/stephanie-lacava/">Stephanie LaCava</a>
One of two published long-form works by Brazilian writer Raduan Nassar, A Cup of Rage is a tiny book — clocking in at a carefully wrought 65 pages — that tackles the dynamic between two sparring lovers, fraught with competitive ire and dueling politic. The couple is comprised of a reclusive older man and a younger woman, who works as a journalist. The man narrates all but the final passage, expressing disdain for his lover’s privilege and simultaneous claim of hard-won moral integrity. “You shitty little intellectual,” he says, “it never occurred to you that everything you say and everything you vomit up is all stuff that you’ve heard from other people, that you haven’t done any of the stuff you talk about, that you only screwed like a virgin and that without my crowbar you aren’t any-fucking thing.” Having lived through more years, he thinks her posture of higher ground — claimed humanism — is neither sustainable nor truthful. He feels superior; or rather, knows the power he wields in seeming so. He reflects: “above all […] the more indifferent I seemed to be, the more attractive she found me.” <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/interviews/language-behind-short-brutal-affair-interview-translator-stefan-tobler/#more-3326" class="more-link">Read more</a>
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The Language Behind a (Short) Brutal Affair: An Interview with Translator Stefan Tobler

The Complete Stories

<h4>Stephanie LaCava is a New York-based writer and founder of Small Press Books for children. Her work has appeared in the Believer, Texte zur Kunst, and other print and online publications, including the Paris Review and Interview.</h4>

Stephanie LaCava

Found in Translation: The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Stephanie LaCava is a New York-based writer and founder of Small Press Books for children. Her work has appeared in the Believer, Texte zur Kunst, and other print and online publications, including the Paris Review and Interview.