| Summary: | This paper describes the environment in which Mito magazine appeared in 1955, the year in which Colombia was facing bipartisan violence and cultural suffocation. However, from the mid-fifties on, the country saw how new cultural proposals were given birth. Such is the case of Mito, which became a cultural platform of a group of intellectuals who sought to contribute, from their respective literary fields, to the understanding of the reality the country was going through. From the analysis of its first issue, Mito is proposed as the agent of an invisible revolution that managed to undermine fundamental aspects of Colombian culture such as the sexual taboo. Therefore, it is suggested that knowing the work and trajectory of its founder, Jorge Gaitán Durán, brings new tools to literary criticism to interpret the function that the group and Mito magazine have had in the conformation of the modern institution of literature in Colombia.
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