The Flowers of Buffoonery (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
96
Utgivningsdatum
2023-03-07
Förlag
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Översättare
Sam Bett
Dimensioner
202 x 134 x 7 mm
Vikt
109 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780811234542

The Flowers of Buffoonery

av Osamu Dazai
Häftad,  Engelska, 2023-03-07
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The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanatorium where Yozo Obathe narrator of No Longer Human at a younger ageis 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 light-hearted, 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 pre-war Japan, The Flowers of Buffoonery is a darkly humorous and fresh addition to Osamu Dazais masterful and intoxicating oeuvre.
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"What I despise about Dazai is that he exposes precisely those things in myself that I most want to hide." -- Yukio Mishima

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Osamu Dazai was born in 1909 into a powerful landowning family of northern Japan. A brilliant student, he entered the French department of Tokyo University in 1930, but later boasted that in the five years before he left without a degree, he had never attended a lecture. Dazai was famous for confronting head-on the social and moral crises of postwar Japan before he committed suicide by throwing himself into Tokyos Tamagawa Aqueduct. His body was found on what would have been his 39th birthday. 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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