In this article, bibliographic sources are compiled, analyzed and interpreted to update and identify how the didactics of literature in high school in Colombia is conceived and developed. The results of the theoretical-descriptive documentary research that correspond to the systematization of documents on the didactics of literature in Colombia and that have been published in the last five years (2015-2020) in databases such as SCOPUS, Academic Google and Dialnet.

As main findings, it is evident that the didactics of literature continues to be immersed within the didactics of the language. Although these have a niche in common, this situation causes the teaching of literature (itself) to be relieved and given a mediating function in the development of other competences (reading comprehension, written production, grammar, syntax, orality, etc.) and other disciplines (such as history, geography, etc.). In conclusion, the educational role of literature as a maker of universal and cultural identities; an art that enriches the human aspects and their creative, aesthetic, analytical, critical, innovative and awareness-raising capacity.