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Flowers of Buffoonery
Osamu Dazai
Synopsis "Flowers of Buffoonery"
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.
(Pseudónimo de Tsushima Shuji; Kanagi, 1909 - Tokio, 1948) Escritor japonés. Fruto del desencanto reinante en su país tras el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, las últimas novelas de Osamu Dazai expresaron el sentir de una generación que había asistido al derrumbamiento de sus valores tradicionales: El sol poniente (1947), quizá su obra más famosa, se centra en la decadencia de la nobleza japonesa tras la derrota en la contienda, mientras que su último libro, Ya no humano (1948), narra en tono autobiográfico la frustración ante el descalabro nacional. Conocido por su ingenio irónico y sombrío y por la brillante fantasía de sus novelas y cuentos, su obsesión por el suicidio y su permanente búsqueda de una verdad ulterior lo convertirían en una figura de culto entre los lectores jóvenes de su país.
