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

The work brings a reflection on the writing strategies used by Euclides da Cunha when he wrote his Os sertoes, specially on the discursive cut which opposes the narrator, as the one who relates, from the observer, as the one who sees. After analyzing the Euclides da Cunha's "rhetoric of sight", I suggest that one of the main aspects of the argumentation in Os sertoes is the notion of distance, in this case, between the narrative and the observation.