BookClassicsFictionJapanese LiteratureLiterary Fiction The Flowers of Buffoonery – Osamu Dazai | Fresh and Darkly Humorous The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba – the narrator of No Longer Human – is convalescing after a failed suicide attempt.
BookClassicsFictionJapanese LiteratureLiterary Fiction No Longer Human – Osamu Dazai | Individual’s alienation from society No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings.