The Flowers of Buffoonery by Osamu Dazai Self-Help and what you can do

and what you can do to change this if you're the boss

is about why generosity trumps genius

with ten simple rules for how to stay creative

This book dismantles the lazy and pernicious tropes of the past as Otto English sets out to redress the balance and reclaim truth from those who seek to pervert it

The Flowers of Buffoonery by Osamu Dazai Self-Help and what you can doThe Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Obathe narrator of No Longer Human at a younger ageis being kept after a failed suicide attempt. While he convalesces, 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 lighthearted, even clownish atmosphere: playing cards, smoking cigarettes, vying for attention, cracking jokes,