The journal Leitura was a bibliographic bulletin which was first published in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1940s, with the objective of popularizing literature (hence becoming part of the Brazilian cultural policy of the time). To this purpose, it promotes certain ideas such as the rapprochement between the artist and the people, and the democratization of art, thus resulting in a series of adaptations made by the own journal or diffused in it, including translations, novel summaries, explanations of works by the authors themselves or by their peers. This paper intends to verify some of the conflicts that arise in its pages at the first years of its publication.
Literature; journals; cultural policy; Estado Novo