Modelo narrativo e composição da paisagem em Voyage à l`interieur du Brésil

Abstract

The article tries to understand the narratives about the landscape present in the work Voyage à l'intérieur du Brésil of the French traveler August de Saint-Hilaire, relying on the perspective that considers him as an interpreter of the difference. He thus points out his writing project by emphasizing his place of speech and the distinctions between his own universe and what he described by expectation of reception. His writings on the landscape of the interior of the Brazilian territory, besides expressing what the traveler sees, thematize the cultural dimension from which he describes. Using the concept of sertão, the traveler models a representation of the world, reorienting the semantic content of the term. Finally, his writing project is guided by the emphasis on the local landscape, but mainly by the affective memory of the author who constantly intervenes in his writing.