《沉沦》和《芝加哥之死》分别为郁达夫与白先勇的短篇小说。它们都是留学生文学的重要作品,都聚焦于留学生的自我认同危机,同时呈现出相异的大环境特征和具体肌理。本文将从他者目光的冰冷、性与爱的无依、文化与价值的失根等方面对两部作品进行比较论述,试图探究这两部作品中“零余”与“零落”之深层内核。 “Degradation” and “Death in Chicago” are short stories by Yu Dafu and Bai Xianyong, respectively. All of them are important works of foreign students’ literature. All of them focus on the crisis of self-identity of foreign students and at the same time exhibit different macro-environment characteristics and specific texture. This article will compare and contrast the two works from the other’s coldness, the lack of sexual and love, the loss of culture and value, trying to explore the “zero ” and "zero Deep core.