In the first part the au thor looks at the in her ent pres ence of the oral tra di tion in In - dian lit er a ture. This non-written lit er a ture al lows in 2001, not only the cul tural fol low-up in - side com munity, but in writ ten form, trans mits sto ries that cap ture lis teners and read ers, without for getting the aes thetic di mensions. In the sec ond part, some ex amples ex plain the persistence of the oral tra di tion in the sto ries about The Old An to nio, us ing sev eral sty lis tic re sources: us ing of re cur rent phrases, al ter ation of time and space, impovisation, ab sence of chro no log i cal or der, sense of hu mor, etc. In a strict sense, In dian lit er a ture is the one which is told and writ ten by the In di ans them selves, how ever, this time, Marcos would be the voice, the communicator or the trans lator of The Old An to nio. The "Ya Basta!" zapatista from 1994, opened unknowned paths and im pelled the voices of the peo ple with- out face -as they call them selves- in the con text of the na tional lit er a ture.