In the wider scenario of the study of opposition publishers during the political outbreak in Brazil (1974-1985), this paper aims to outline the history of Kairós Livraria e Editora, which has been active between 1978 and 1983 in São Paulo. The interviews its owners gave me are the main source of this research. Since the available data indicate that this publisher fits in what I call militant opposition publishing, I introduce a few questions about the relations between the form of Kairós' organization and the results it has achieved, especially from an editorial and political standpoint.
Editorial history; opposition publishers; books and politics