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The writer Osman Lins, from Vitria de Santo Anto, Pernambuco, Brazil went to Europe for the first time in 1961, on a scholarship from Alliance Franaise. During his stay there, besides studying French and being a contributor for O Estado de S. Paulo, he made a plan to exploit, in an intelligent way, the great cultural patrimony of the Old Continent. After a period of six months, he returned to Brazil completely engaged by everything he had seen and heard there and decided to share his experiences with his readers. Thus he wrote Marinheiro de primeira viagem, published in 1963. What calls our attention are not only the reports of his experiences from his trip written in short narratives and marked by a dialogue between reality and visual, literary, philosophical works of art, linked to day-to-day news, among other stylistic resources, but another aspect of his work: the way he links the stories. Their relation between them is not linear, but cyclical. Besides this mythical structure there is a reference to the myth of Orpheus that assumes a strategic role in Marinheiro de primeira viagem, giving it an overarching poetic tone in which form and content intertwine.