O viajante de Os sertões

Abstract

This essay analyses the intertextual relationship between Os sertões and the travel chronicle written by the naturalistic travelers that explored the Brazilian countryside during the 19th century. Some similarities have been identified, such as the “otherness” of the individual traversing the back-country, the signs along the way, the traveler’s observations on his obstacles, the perception of the melancholic back-country landscape, and, mainly, the scientific look, that enables us to approach the Euclides’ narrative to those chronicles. The quotations from several naturalistic travelers proves that Euclides new these narratives. Thus, the presence of the features which are specific of travel chronicles in Os sertões evidences the relationship mentioned above and the importance of an analysis in the perspective of travels chronicles.