Da similitude: uma cartografia do espaço em Os Sertões

Abstract

This paper has as its goal to reflect about the representation of space in Euclides da Cunha‘s Os sertões, whose approach adopts symmetrical references to frame the geography of the backlands. The theoretical support for our analyses comes from the ideas contained in Michel Foucault‘s book As palavras e as coisas, in which the resemblance is seen by the author as a resource to understand an experience of existence. Foreseeing the convenientia, the aemulatio, the analogia, the simpatia and the antipatia as figures of similitude that would explain the link between the things that establish the universe, we have concluded that, in an attempt to fit the backlands geography in the Positivist ideal, a projected backland reverberates in the Euclydean reading as a uniform and closed world idealized as a universe built only by language.