At the same time it is possible to identify in Ideal do Crtico [Critic's Ideal] "his main lines of activity in literary criticism" (JOBIM, 2010JOBIM, J. L. Machado de Assis: o crtico como romancista. Machado de Assis em linha, ano 3, nmero 5, junho 2010, p.75-94., p.76).4 4 Text in the original: "as linhas mestras de sua atuao na crtica literria". For example, in the section Semana Literria [Literary Week] (1866), from Dirio do Rio De Janeiro [Daily Newspaper of Rio de Janeiro], signed by Machado de Assis, the text from 1865 is also fit for a reverse reading in so far as the principles proposed there configure the practice of criticism at that time in relation to which Machado is going to be opposed.