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Ángel Rama’s critical discourse goes through a series of complex reorientations along its course, resulting from a permanent contact with new theoretical languages and from his involvement in various debates around the study of Latin American literature. Such movements can be reconstructed by comparing the meaning and use that three key concepts adopt in Rama’s readings: the reading public, social class and culture. With the aim of analyzing the effects of their reformulation, two of Rama’s texts will be approached: “Rodolfo Walsh: la narrativa en el conflicto de las culturas” (1976) and Transculturación narrativa en América Latina (1982). The prepositional construction “by/for the poor” present in these texts allows reflecting over the various revisions, acquisitions and modulations Rama’s critical practice experiences in three different instances.