The Flowers of Buffoonery

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Keene, Donald (1971). Landscapes and Portraits, Appreciations of Japanese Culture. Kodansha International Limited. p.191.

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Maybe it’s most notable that 1935’s Yozo notes only “I barely qualify as human”; 1948’s Yozo is “no longer human” at all..." Losing Ground (Japanese: 逆行, Hepburn: Gyakkō), alternatively translated as Regression, [4] is the tenth story in The Final Years. [1] He Is Not the Man He Used to Be [ edit ]Prequel’ to Dazai’s infamous No Longer Human, this novella describes Yozo Oba’s failed attempt at lover’s suicide and the subsequent time he spends recovering at a sanitarium. It is unique in that it does not follow the typical structure, or one you would expect, at least. Takahashi, Takako (1977). "Dōke no Hana ron" 『道化の華』論[On "The Flowers of Buffoonery"]. Kioku no kurasa 記憶の冥さ[ The Dark of Memory]. Jinbun Shoin. pp.76–80. Sono koto o on'na no ayatsuri-goto no yō ni kuchi ni dasanaide, damatte jin'yō o tatenaoshitara ī noda. Daitai, memeshikute ikenai. そのことを女の繰りごとのように口にださないで、黙って陣容を立て直したらいいのだ。大体、女々しくていけない。[Don't talk about it like a woman making gratuitous complaints, just shut up and fix the thing. It's unmanly and it doesn't suit the work.] That night, Mano keeps Yōzō awake, telling him about the origins of the scar on her face. Just before dawn, they put on warm clothes and set off on a hike up the hill behind the sanatorium, which overlooks the coast. Their hope is to catch a glimpse of Mt. Fuji, but from the hilltop, it is too cloudy to see.

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Soon after his convalescence, fictionally documented in Flowers of Buffoonery, Dazai was arrested for his involvement in the Japanese Communist Party. He lived in hiding for nearly two years before he was found by his brother Bunji. Dazai agreed to turn himself in and renounce all Party activities in exchange for a reinstatement of his allowance. Soon after he published The Flowers of Buffoonery, which betrays glimpses of Dazai’s heterodox politics, a Marxism of the head but not the heart: “I was working for the left. Handing out leaflets, staging demonstrations, all kinds of things I wasn’t cut out to do. It was absurd. . . . What kept me going was this fantasy of being some kind of an enlightened person.” In No Longer Human, Ōba’s college pal Horiki drags him to a secret Communist meeting. Listening to the lecture on Marxian economics, Ōba has mixed feelings: “Everything he said seemed exceedingly obvious, and undoubtedly true, but I felt sure that something more obscure, more frightening lurked in the hearts of human beings . . . something inexplicable at the bottom of human society which was not reducible to economics.” Far from being turned off by the absurdity of his “comrades,” he finds their irrationality “faintly pleasurable” and continues to attend the meetings, playing the clown the same way he did for his schoolmates.The Flowers of Buffoonery (Japanese: 道化の華, Hepburn: Dōke no hana) is the eighth and longest story in The Final Years [1] (see main article: The Flowers of Buffoonery). a b "The Flowers of Buffoonery". Publishers Weekly. 21 November 2022. Archived from the original on 26 January 2023 . Retrieved 26 January 2023. I desperately believe that Dazai may found solace even just a moment in writing this or perhaps its an outlet for his inner thoughts. This was written 13 years before No longer human thus showing how different he was in earlier year of his career than his later years