A Study On The Death Writing Of Kawabata’s Postwar Novels

Kawabata Yasunari,the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature,is an important representative writer of the New Sensation School in Japan.What is noteworthy is that nearly one third of his works involved with death.Death writing is one of the vital components of Kawabata literature,which has great meaning.Because of his unique life experience,his death writing has its own characteristics.Compared with his early works,the death writing is less in postwar novels,the implication is more profound,which has great research value.By means of biographical criticism and psychoanalysis,this paper intends to analyze the aesthetic value of death writing from postwar novels.All the paper are consisted of five parts: preface,main body,three chapters and conclusion.In preface,the author mainly gives an overview of Kawabata Yasunari’ works,makes a brief statement of the research status at home and abroad and a definition of the theory,and explains the research method and innovation.In first chapter,the author divides the death writing into physical death and spiritual death.By analyzing all kinds of death in the novels,the author intends to explore the profound meaning and reveal the great influence from society and his life experience.In second chapter,from the perspective of death image,the author analyzes the image metaphor in Kawabata’s postwar novels and connects these images of death with the traditional Japanese culture,aiming to understand Kawabata’s oath:regarding the traditional Japanese culture as his pursuit in his life.In third chapter,combining the monoaware and the lonely experience of Kawabata,the author interprets the death in Kawabata’s postwar novels from the aesthetic perspectiveThe conclusion mainly explains the death writing in Kawabata’s postwar novels from the perspective of traditional Japanese culture,and discusses how death writing presents the traditional Japanese aesthetic value.