Two Europeans in Rio de Janeiro: Stefan Zweig and Paulo Rónai. Registered Impressions in Brasil, País do Futuro and Travel in Brazil magazine

Abstract

This article aims to compare impressions of Rio de Janeiro recorded in texts, both published in 1941, by two foreign writers, Stefan Zweig and Paulo Rónai, who were refugees in Brazil during Vargas' Estado Novo government in the Nazi’s persecutions context in Central Europe. From Zweig, we selected fragments from Brasil, um País do Futuro, which show impressions of his arrival in Rio de Janeiro in 1936, the idealization of the Country as "Eden Rediscovered" and the flânerie through the city, observed from several perspectives. From Rónai, we extracted excerpts from Travel in Brazil's article "A European's Impression of Rio in 1941", which reveal Rio's associations to a image of "Promised Land" image and the author’s path between mourning work and homesickness.
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Contatori Romano, L. A. (2019). Two Europeans in Rio de Janeiro: Stefan Zweig and Paulo Rónai. Registered Impressions in Brasil, País do Futuro and Travel in Brazil magazine. Revista De Estudios Brasileños, 6(12), 91–103. https://doi.org/10.14201/reb201961291103

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Author Biography

Luís Antônio Contatori Romano

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Unifesspa
Doctor in Theory and Literary History by Unicamp. Post-doctorate in Brazilian Literature by the Institute of Brazilian Studies (IEB) of the University of São Paulo (USP). Coordinator of the academic master's degree program at Unifesspa. Researcher Productivity of CNPq, research project "Critical Study of the magazine Travel in Brazil, edited by Cecília Meireles, in 1941-1942".
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