The presence of Nietzsche in Brazil is, without a doubt, incontestable. In the last decades the repercussion of his writings has been felt among diverse areas: in Literature, the plastic arts, music, psychoanalysis, and the so called human sciences. Nevertheless, itis problematic to verify such presence in a precise, but succinct, way: to show where, how and when it occurs, what is what it does when it becomes effective and what effects are derived from it. Therefore, what is accomplished in this communication, it is to point briefly at some of the most important tendencies and movements.