Osamu Dazai 
The Flowers of Buffoonery [EPUB ebook] 

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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: playing cards, smoking cigarettes, vying for attention, cracking jokes, and trying to make each other laugh.

While No Longer Human delves into the darkest corners of human consciousness, The Flowers of Buffoonery pokes fun at these same emotions: the follies and hardships of youth, of love, and of self-hatred and depression. A glimpse into the lives of a group of outsiders in prewar Japan, The Flowers of Buffoonery is a darkly humorous and fresh addition to Osamu Dazai’s masterful and intoxicating oeuvre.

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A propos de l’auteur

Sam Bett is a fiction writer and Japanese translator whose credits include Star by Yukio Mishima. Working with David Boyd, he co-translated the Mieko Kawakami novels Heaven, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize; All the Lovers in the Night, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction; and Breasts and Eggs.

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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 96 ● ISBN 9780811234559 ● Taille du fichier 0.7 MB ● Traducteur Sam Bett ● Maison d’édition New Directions ● Pays US ● Publié 2023 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 8700592 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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