Abstract
The aim of this article is to think about the plan for a Catholic literary criticism devised by two fundamental authors for the Brazilian critical canon of the twentieth century, Alceu Amoroso Lima and Álvaro Lins, based on both of their readings on Machado de Assis's works.
Álvaro Lins; Alceu Amoroso Lima; Machado de Assis; Brazilian literary criticism in the twentieth century; Catholicism