The Flowers of Buffoonery by Osamu Dazai
For the first time in English, Osamu Dazais hilariously comic and deeply moving prequel toNo Longer Human
"What I despise about Dazai is that he exposes precisely those things in myself that I most want to hide" -- Yukio Mishima
The author of the global bestseller No Longer Human and The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan. He committed suicide by drowning in Tokyo’s Tamagawa Aqueduct. Sam Bett is a fiction writer and Japanese translator. His translation of Yukio Mishima’s Star won the 2019–2020 Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780811234542 |
| ISBN 10 | 0811234541 |
| Title | The Flowers of Buffoonery |
| Author | Osamu Dazai |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Year published | 2023-03-07 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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