Stream of consciousness was a genre of literature that originated in the early 20th century in the United States. It emphasized the direct narration and the use of stream of consciousness techniques in novels. His representative works include: 1 "One Hundred Years of Solitude" Garcia Marquez (Colombia) 2 The Great Gatsby, F. Scott fitzgerald (America) 3 "Wasteland" Ernest Hemmingway (America) 4 "White Night" Higashino Keigo (Japan) 5 Thunderstorm Cao Yu (China) 6 "Scream" Lu Xun (China) 7 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez (Colombia) 8 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Russia) 9 "White Night" Higashino Keigo (Japan) 10 The Great Gatsby, F. Scott fitzgerald (America) These works all used the stream of consciousness technique to present the author's unique thoughts and sensory experiences through a large number of subjective descriptions and leaping narrations. Stream of consciousness literature reached its peak in the 1950s and then gradually declined.