The narrator and the observer: notes on the rhetoric of sight in Os sertões

Abstract

The work brings a reflection on the writing strategies used by Euclides da Cunhawhen he wrote his Os sertões, specially on the discursive cut which opposes thenarrator, as the one who relates, from the observer, as the one who sees. Afteranalyzing the Euclides da Cunha’s “rhetoric of sight”, I suggest that one of themain aspects of the argumentation in Os sertões is the notion of distance, in thiscase, between the narrative and the observation.