/lit/ - Literature

>>14840263
Imo Éveline is one of the few pieces of literature which actually made the hopelessness of the situation stick out to the reader and emotionally affect us. I would’ve put it quite a bit higher.

>>14840263
Good ranking. Don’t agree with everything obviously but nice taste. Glad The Dead and Araby are at the top respectively

>>14840263
OFFICIAL /lit/ DUBLINERS RANKINGS

GOD TIER
The Dead

GREAT TIER
A Little Cloud
Araby
Counterparts
A Painful Case

VERY GOOD TIER
An Encounter
After the Race
Clay
Ivy Day in the Committee Room
The Sisters

GOOD TIER
Two Gallants
Eveline
The Boarding House

MEH BUT STILL BETTER THAN ALMOST ALL LITERATURE TIER
Grace
A Mother

>>14840851
Why is The Grace so low? I admit that I really enjoyed it because I know a lot of people who pretend they're Christians but just spew prosperity bible shit similar to the preacher in the story

I read Dubliners 3 or 4 years ago. The two stories that stick in my memory are:

-An Encounter: This reminded me of a Thomas Ligotti or other horror story
-Two Gallants: The bit where one of them goes for a meal of peas and ginger beer was one of the saddest things I've ever read

>>14840263
A Painful Case and Two Gallants are the ones that resonate with me most.
>"He felt that he had been outcast from life's feast."
I felt the same way when I first read A Painful Case.

>>14840263
A Painful Case is the second best story. Araby is really good tho.

I don't remember wtf happened in Grace, and Clay, and I've read this book 4 times.

>>14840464
that's right

>>14840263
I would have put Ivy Day a lot lower, but I suspect that it's unironically too deep for me

>>14842437
Grace is the one where some old faggot goes to a spiritual retreat and Clay is the one about the woman who is going to die alone

After the race is bro tier

I liked Araby a lot more than the Dead. I was reading it on the plane to Dublin and nearly cried towards the end.