Graham Swift is a famous contemporary British novelist.He believes that the human world is a world destined for trauma,and the truth of life is the permanent aggressive appearance of traumatic reality.In Swift's works,the traumatic reality referred to by"things"and"here and now"is the Real in Lacan's theory,and the trauma of people is result of the subversion of their original symbolic order which is caused by the Real.In the face of traumatic life,Swift hopes that people can use symbolic speech to tell their own life stories,and defend the continuation of human civilization,and can be inspired to have the will-to-live to fight against the trauma.