/lit/ - Literature

>>14049767
It’s plainly between “The Dead” and “A Painful Case” bro

It’s The Dead, no question.

An Encounter, easily. Araby is decent though.

>>14049767
>Thinking Dubliners is a collection of short stories and not a novel
That was your first mistake. Or maybe the literary equivalent of a song cycle, there’s nothing to collect together at all

>>14050543
Woke

>>14049767
The Sisters or The Boarding House
Araby is good, honestly they all are except maybe like After the Race or Two Gallants

>>14049767
in the merry month of june
from my home I've started
left the girls of tuam
nearly broken hearted
saluted father dear
kissed my darling mother
drank a pint of beer
my grief and tears to smother
then off to reap the corn
leave where I was born
cut a stout black thorn
to banish ghosts and goblins
in a brand new pair of brogues
rattling o'er the bogs
frightening all the dogs
on the rocky road to dublin
1-2-3-4-5 hunt the hare and turn her
down the rocky road
all the way to dublin
whack-fo-lol-le-rah

>>14049767
That's also the one that catched my attention the most when I read for it the first time. I read it a second time later and didn't find it as much stimulating There's something I didn't really take time to explain to myself about this book, globally the tone and style are discreet, classical and almost boring but there's something that makes it entertaining with only a few details carefully arranged. I'm not even an upper-middle class Joyce bootlicking fucker who goes to museums to intensifies its existence, I sincerily think that through careful and clever writing, I guess, it manages to make something "more" out of almost nothing visibly "more". But I'm not sure of what it is exactly yet.

>>14049972
yep

I like the one where they sit around drinking stout and one guy reads a poem, and they all say what a nice poem it was.

>>14051175
That's just as boring as it sounds. Without the will to actually read it, and Joyce's style, this book is sincerily boring. And not because of a "lack of plot" or anything, but because most of what happens and what is (visibly) said is really, really commonplace, and the more intense moments are mostly presented in a way that almost seem reserved, polite, maybe quite uptight like some old-fashioned bourgie in fact. I still quite like it, the "fog" that this kind of politeness creates is an important part of its style I guess.

>>14051225
Retard frog poster can't see the glory in the mundane.

>>14051346
>can't see the glory in the mundane.
Is that not just a matter of course?

>>14051225
>take away the style
>and the book is boring
yeah no shit you genius

>>14051346
So you don't know how a sick dream like in the beginning of death on credit from Céline, is just as commonplace. It's a matter of subjects. Céline just know the same how life is mainly mundane shit, he's simply not as polite and well-mannered as Joyce. No shit, I know about "the glory of the mundane".

What was the one where the guy has daydreams that he’s a published author getting interviewed and it turns out his girl of his dreams died a long time ago?

>>14051141
>>14051225
>>14051680
is nothing but me by the way lol, happy to maybe discuss this book

>>14051690
'a little cloud'. she wasn't particularly the girl of his dreams though.

>>14051720
That was my favorite passage, thought I might have misremembered that part.

>>14049767
I was like "lol the dead sucks" until the final leg of it: When he goes to the hotel, and his primal, boyish urges toward his wife well up. Then his urges run aground against the foundational tragedy experienced by his wife. Which then leads to a deeper exegesis about mortality and death and the effect of the dead on the living, the the effect of death upon life. It floored me. There were stories more enjoyable throughout, but the final portion of the Dead is certainly the apotheosis of Dubliners, and some of the most powerful literature I've come across.

>>14051699
We can all tell it is you. You're acting like a faggot and post unrelated images on /lit/. We all know it's you.

>>14051680
>simply not as polite and well-mannered as Joyce

>>14049767
Two Gallants was my favorite. The part where Corley gives him the gold coin really stuck with me.

It's not the best story, but I've always loved "After The Race." It's underrated.