Short Fiction

The Flowers of Buffoonery

by Osamu Dazai

Yozo Oba—narrator of No Longer Human—recovers in a seaside sanitarium after a failed suicide. Visitors come and go; nurses and police drift through. Against this bleak tableau, Yozo and his companions attempt conversation, but despair and absurdity linger like stale air.

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