The Flowers of Buffoonery

Synopsis

For the first time in english, osamu dazai’s hilariously comic and deeply moving prequel to no longer humanthe 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.