During the 1920s in Latin America, at a time when early movements and new technologies (radio, cinema) were gradually changing the design of everyday life, the chronic change of literary and social function. Unlike modernists (Martí, Gutiérrez Nájera, Darío), the chronists of this time (such as Roberto Arlt, Salvador Novo) are close to popular culture. Thus, they imagine, through a rhetoric of accessibility, democratic and horizontal writing and daily reading.