“颓废”是社会的“现代性”发展到一定的程度,以一种较为独立、成熟的美学风貌在人们的思想意识与文艺作品中出现的。以此眼光审视格非早期的先锋小说,能够发现其中呈现出十分明显的“颓废”美学意味。本文在梳理“颓废”的定义、特征、审美功能,以及“颓废”与现代性的关系基础上,考察分析格非先锋小说中的“颓废”美学及其投射出的“正视虚无”这一现代性意义。 “Decadence ” is the development of social “modernity ” to a certain extent, with a more independent and mature aesthetic appearance in people’s ideology and literary works. With this perspective, we can find out that there are obvious “decadent” aesthetic meanings in Gefei’s pioneering novels. On the basis of combing the definition, characteristics, aesthetic functions, and decadentness of “decadent ” and the relationship between modernity and “decadent ”, this paper examines and analyzes the “decadent ” aesthetics and its projected “Facing nothingness” is a modern significance.