%0 Journal Article %T "... ora, isso faz muita diferen£¿a...": tratamento da alteridade em La beaut¨¦ sur la terre, de Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz %A Verselle %A Vincent %J Alea : Estudos Neolatinos %D 2004 %I Unversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro %R 10.1590/S1517-106X2004000200007 %X c.-f. ramuz's la beaut¨¦ sur la terre (1927) is a novel of otherness because of its main character, juliette, a young cuban orphan who suddenly finds herself in a village on the shores of the l¨¦man lake. cultural otherness, but above all, as the novel little by little seems to express, otherness of nature: juliette appears to many characters (and perhaps to the reader) as the embodiment of beauty - a new aphrodite. this paper sets itself the task of studying the textual devices by means of which such a "divine" aura is conferred on juliette. in the first place, the system of portraits in the novel is discussed, together with the traits belonging to the main character's description; the former are then related to the text's particular narrative structure, being perceived as its effects; finally, this narrative structure is itself considered in its generic scope as one of the constitutive dimensions of a poetics of the fantastic, as c.-f. ramuz was able to devise. %K ramuz %K poetics %K portrait %K ocularization %K focalization %K genre the fantastic %K otherness. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1517-106X2004000200007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en