The Flowers of Buffoonery

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The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where a young Yozo Oba--the narrator of No Longer Human--is being kept after a failed suicide attempt. so made new language. The 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. Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi. " Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): "homemade language. 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.