武田泰淳作为中国文化研究的一员,痴迷于中国文学典籍;后又奔赴中国战场,不得不直面复杂的中日关系。他一生笔耕不缀,留下了大量优秀的文学作品。《蝮蛇的后裔》作为武田的代表作之一,发表于战争初期,是以自己在上海迎来战败的经验为基础写成的。作品中承载着武田自身对人性的诸多思索和认知。厘清武田在战争前后自身的经历和创作历程,着眼于作品中病人暗黑的内心世界并审视极限状态下的利己主义,从新的视点出发对文章进行解读即为本文之题旨。 As a member of the study of Chinese culture, Takeda Takeda became obsessed with Chinese literary books; then went to the battlefield in China and had to confront complex Sino-Japanese relations. His life pen nameless, leaving a large number of outstanding literary works. As one of Takeda’s masterpieces, “Descendants of Viper” was published in the early days of the war and was based on the experience of its defeat in Shanghai. The works bear Takeda many of their thoughts and cognitions of human nature. To clarify Takeda’s own experience and creation process before and after the war, focusing on the patient’s inner world of darkness and examining the extreme state of egoism, reading the article from a new perspective is the topic of this article.