Here we study the work of the Salvadoran Roque Dalton, mainly his A Red Book for Lenin. Its collage-edging format is analyzed. Linking style and form with content, it is proposed as a hypothesis that collage is chosen to highlight the theory (Leninist and Gramscian) of hegemony. It is discussed whether in Dalton collage assumes a postmodern tone or is a resource linked to the montage of the modernist avant-garde and their critique of the Market. The hermeneutics on Lenin by Dalton are compared with those of Victorio Codovilla, Rodolfo Ghioldi, Rodney Arismendi, Marta Harnecker, Atilio Boron and John Holloway.