1938年出生於臺北的郭松棻及1944年出生於重慶的李渝，一個是生於日治時代的本省臺灣人、一個是隨國民黨政府來臺灣的外省人，作家養成在反共、美援的背景中，並相識、相戀結為文學夫妻。二人的童年皆處於歷史接縫處，郭松棻、李渝就讀臺灣大學時期，受到存在主義、精神分析、現代主義等思潮影響，並內化於文學創作之中，形成現代主義書寫的個人風格。郭松棻、李渝身兼學院現代主義者、保釣世代、作家的多重身分，一同追尋民族主義的依歸，一同被拒於國門之外。本文旨在描繪兩人於1960年代臺灣文學場域的創作位置，探討兩人早期寫作存在美學式的現代主義文風，以及如何與兩人往後的創作風格與思想脈絡接軌。

Gou Songfen, who was born in 1938 in Taipei, and Li Yu, who was born in 1944 in Zhongqing, both belonged to the second generation intellectuals in postwar Taiwan. Having been educated under the anti-communism and the U.S Aids atmospheres, Gou, being a Taiwanese born and lived during the Japanese colonial Taiwan period and Li, an expatriated Chinese, were eventually to become one of the most famous couples in the literature history of Taiwan. Having grown up during such an historic transition of the history, Gou and Li were being influenced by all kinds of intellectual resources including existentialism, psychoanalysis and modernism during their attendance at National Taiwan University. Both of them had internalized these variegated influences into their writing styles. As modernists of sorts trained in this prestigious academy, as mentors of the student activists involving in Protecting Diaoyutai movement, and above all as the writers attempting to search for a new national identity, as they had abandoned or had been simultaneously rejected by, their own respective countries of origin. The purpose of this essay is to investigate the position of Gou Songfen and Li Yu in the 1960s literature world of Taiwan and how their poetic styles of existential modernist sort are embedded in their early writings, and finally, how their poetic styles were being developed into their specific writing characteristics.