汪曾祺是中国现代文学史上较早使用意识流手法作小说的作家之一,在他之前只有废名、徐志摩、林徽因、李健吾等创作过意识流小说。除废名的作品未受西方影响外,其他都有"摹仿、实践心理分析和意识流技巧的鲜明印痕。但是从质与量两方面来说,用力最勤、成就最高者当属汪曾祺。"自1941年3月2日通过沈从文在《大公报》上发表《复仇》(其副标题为"给一个孩子讲的故事")始,汪曾祺陆续发表了《待车》、《小学校的钟声》、《绿猫》、《礼拜天的早晨》等具有意识流性质的小说,数量不多但很有质量,也很有他自己
Wang Zengqi is a one of writers who relatively early wrote short stories with stream -of-consciousness technique in modern Chinese history of literature .Wang Zengqi focused stream of consciousness novel in his early works .His novels were based on the collision and fusion between Chinese lyric literature tradition and the western modernism literature ideological trend , and had elements of prose and poetry .To his later years , he pro-posed to return to the realism , and return to national traditions , which tend to be more skilled in the art .