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The Flowers of Buffoonery

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Notes From Your Bookseller
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Exploring themes of alienation and being misunderstood, Flowers of Buffoonery is a refreshing narrative that gives perspective on the notion of finding your place in a changing world. With a sharp wit and a keen understanding of what it is to be human, this is one of those stories that is equally timeless and timely.

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. While he is convalescing, his friends and family visit him, and other patients and nurses drift in and out of his room. Against this dispiriting backdrop, everyone tries to maintain a lighthearted, even clownish atmosphere...