The Biblioteca Básica Latino-Americana was originally conceived by Darcy Ribeiro during his years of exile in the 1960s-1970s. The proposal of the collection is thus to promote reflection on Latin American thought, presented in a comprehensive way, through essays and texts by important artists and thinkers. The work of Ángel Rama (1926-1983) addresses in a seminal way the social and political contexts surrounding Latin American literary production.