川端康成是日本第一个、亚洲第二个获得诺贝尔文学奖的作家。纵观川端文学,他所热衷的主题大多数是悲伤、孤寂、死亡等方面,这不仅仅是受日本传统物哀思想的影响,更与他个人的创伤经历有关。本文结合创伤理论来探讨个人创伤给川端康成自身以及川端文学带来的影响。这些个人创伤主要有儿时的孤儿情结、挥之不去的死亡阴翳以及失恋体验。 Yasunari Kawabata is Japan’s first and second Asian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Throughout Kawabata’s literature, most of his favorite subjects are sadness, loneliness and death, which are not only affected by the traditional Japanese sorrow but also related to his personal traumatic experience. This article combines trauma theory to explore the impact of personal trauma on Kawabata’s own and Kawabata’s literature. These personal traumas mainly include childhood orphans, endless lingering death and lovelorn experiences.