This paper will look into Laurence Sterne'sThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman;A Sentimental Journey, and Machado de Assis'sMemórias póstumas de Brás Cubas andDom Casmurro to examine certain stylistic features present in Machado's texts already introduced by Sterne 132 years before. These include digression and the narrators' subjectivity
intertextuality; Sterne; Machado; narrator