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What's your favourite story of it. Mine's Araby. For, I relate with the character, and the prose in this one is superb.
My preferred quote being:
>My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
Silvers go to:
>The Dead
>Eveline
>A Painful Case

>> No.10923047

Favorite is A Little Cloud, but also The Dead (of course), and A Painful Case. The one I liked the least was Ivy Day in the Committee Room

>> No.10923068

The Dead, by far. I liked "A painful Case" a lot, but The Dead got me really interested in Joyce's works. The Dead motivated me to read Portrait of an Artist.

>> No.10923088

The Dead, and it's not close

>> No.10923092

>>10923047
>>10923068
>>10923088
>The Dead
Spotted the sophomores

>> No.10923155

>>10923092
Popularity doesn't mean that something is bad, no one is impressed by you.

Favourites are A Little Cloud and The Dead

>> No.10923172

The Sisters was my favorite and I feel like I never see anyone mention it

>> No.10923209

>>10923172
My favorite. Araby a close second

>> No.10923304

Vote for A Little Cloud and the Dead, with The Dead being far superior

>> No.10923334

>>10923172
I didn't care for it at first but got really emotional when I read it a second time. I agree that it's excellent.

>> No.10923380

I love After The Race, personally.

It's amazing how much is going on below the surface of all of Joyce's stories; you can investigate the broad, allegorical meaning of every story in Dubliners. However, I'm deeply impressed at the way Joyce manages, simultaneously, to capture moments filled with real people who feel things in relateable ways. In "After the Race," for example, Joyce perfectly captures what it's like to have some money, but not a lot of money, and to hang out with other people who have far more money than you do.

Joyce writes about real people. He's like Shakespeare, in that way. You can always find yourself in his stories.

>> No.10923419

>>10923380
this... seems like everyone here likes the dead, araby, a little cloud and a painful case. I agree and also think that An Encounter is underrated.

>> No.10923448

>>10923419
Oh, I love A Little Cloud, too, but entirely for the reasons I stated above. You can fucking feel for Little Chandler. You can feel his sense of being trapped in a life he suddenly doesn't want.

>> No.10924495

>>10923068
It's the meme answer, but the right one.

Araby was an early favourite of mine, and I've always liked Two Gallants for some reason.

>> No.10924504

Evelyn

>> No.10924508

>>10923088
The Dead kinda drags for too long. The party part could be less sparse.

>> No.10925051

I liked the part where the bum jerks off in a field. Don't remember much about the other stories.

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>>10923448
>You can feel little Chandler
Tell me more ;)

>> No.10925269

>>10923419
An encounter is weirdly relatable. It's hard to pit my finger on but it really resonated with me. It's underrated for sure

>> No.10925563

>>10923172
hELLO NaBokov

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>>10923172
>The Sisters

What's he on about in that story?

It's a (seemingly) straightforward puzzler, like Hemingway's 'A Pursuit Race'

>> No.10925698

>>10925269
An Encounter is terrific.

>He began to speak on the subject of chastising boys. His mind, as if magnetised again by his speech, seemed to circle slowly round and round its new centre. He said that when boys were that kind they ought to be whipped and well whipped. When a boy was rough and unruly there was nothing would do him any good but a good sound whipping. A slap on the hand or a box on the ear was no good: what he wanted was to get a nice warm whipping. I was surprised at this sentiment and involuntarily glanced up at his face. As I did so I met the gaze of a pair of bottle-green eyes peering at me from under a twitching forehead. I turned my eyes away again.

It's hard to put your finger on, you might say.

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OFFICIAL /lit/ DUBLINERS POWER RANKINGS

GOD TIER
1. The Dead
GREAT TIER
2. A Little Cloud
3. Araby
4. Counterparts
5. A Painful Case
VERY GOOD TIER
6. Two Gallants
7. An Encounter
8. Clay
9. Ivy Day in the Committee Room
10. The Sisters
GOOD TIER
11. After the Race
12. Eveline
13. Grace
14. The Boarding House
15. A Mother

>> No.10925931

>>10924508
it sort of lulls you into a false sense of security that the story won't be horribly depressing