Lorca and Brazil

Abstract

Federico García Lorca, accompanied by Manuel Fontanals, was in Rio de Janeiro twice, on his way to Buenos Aires, in 1933, and on his return a year later. He barely had twelve hours to walk and get to know the capital of Rio de Janeiro. On both occasions he was received and accompanied by Alfonso Reyes, then ambassador of Mexico in Brazil. About these two visits there was only a small review in the evening paper A Noite. However, his work will not be known until after his death and, especially, thanks to the premiere in Rio de Janeiro of Blood Wedding, in 1944. Evaluating the impact of his work and the echoes of his death is the purpose of these pages in which the first opinions in Brazil about his person and his artistic production are collected.