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Synopsis. In late December, the day after a suicide pact, twenty-something artist Ōba Yōzō awakens at a seaside sanatorium for tuberculosis patients and finds his lover Sono did not survive. A young nurse named Mano, whose face is marked with a noticeable scar, is assigned to care for him.
This book is a prequel to No Longer Human, a classic Japanese novel about a depressed young man. It follows his friends and family as they visit him in a sanitarium and try to make him laugh.
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Mar 7, 2023 · For the first time in English, Osamu Dazai’s hilariously comic and deeply moving prequel to No Longer Human. The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba―the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age―is being kept after a failed suicide attempt.
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Mar 25, 2023 · A darkly humorous and fresh addition to Osamu Dazai’s masterful and intoxicating oeuvre. The novel follows Yozo Oba, the narrator of No Longer Human, in a seaside sanitarium after a failed suicide attempt.
Feb 25, 2023 · A review of Osamu Dazai's 1935 novella, translated by Sam Bett, featuring his semi-autobiographical character Yozo Oba. The novel explores themes of suicide, identity, and art in 1930s Japan.
The Flowers of Buffoonery is a prequel to No Longer Human, a novel by Osamu Dazai about a depressed young man in prewar Japan. The novella follows Yozo Oba, the narrator of No Longer Human, as he tries to cope with his suicidal thoughts and his visitors in a sanitarium.
Jul 6, 2023 · With the new translation of the novel’s prequel, The Flowers of Buffoonery, Dazai’s intimate, visceral writing now encounters a fresh audience. Taken together, the two works assert his...
