芥川龙之介是大正时期日本代表性的作家,很多作品脍炙人口,其中《地狱变》是他的主要作品之一。《地狱变》以其独特的叙事手法,和反话式表述,一直以来是学者研究的热门,从艺术之上主义,文艺叙事学,等多种角度的解读络绎不绝。本文尝试从西方悲剧理论去分析这部作品。 Akutagawa Ryunosuke is a representative Japanese writer during the Taisho period. His works have gained great popularity. Among them, Hell is one of his main works. With its unique narrative technique and contravariant expression, “Hellfire” has always been a hot spot for scholars to study. It has been interpreted continuously from a variety of perspectives, such as artism above and literature narration. This article attempts to analyze this work from the western tragedy theory.