The article, Criticism under the sign of non-conventional, offers instead of the delimitation canon – anti-canon the one that is more flexible in accepting points of view (of critical reading) with a larger opening and freedom, the one between conventional and non-conventional. The literary work, both fiction and that of events (memoirs, essays, and journals) appears to be classified conventionally or with a refuse to use a convention, through the description of an aspect (way) of representation of the fiction world. Literary criticism is claimed this way to develop a non-conventional demonstration, following the non-uniform route of writing the work. The non-conventional, understood by us as interpretation and reception of literature, produces non-canonical readings which refuse the primate of preconceived images and are not established in excessive and sticky formalism.