The Flowers of Buffoonery - Osamu Dazai Nieuw Amsterdam the first a few years

the first a few years after her suicide in 1963

Op deze hectische odyssee

zonder terug te keren: ze nam vier paarden mee en liet hem

Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness

The Flowers of Buffoonery - Osamu Dazai Nieuw Amsterdam the first a few yearsThe Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanatorium where Yozo Oba the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age is 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