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Francisco José de Oliveira Vianna is one of the most important Brazilian intellectuals of the first decades of the XX century, one of the pioneers of the sociological studies in Brazil andone of the main authors of the so called authoritarian thought. His trajectory as an author - which started in Revista do Brasil- reached the top with the inclusion of his titles in the Brasiliana Collection published by the Companhia Editora Nacional. This paper has the main goal of analysing the prefaces written by Vianna for the books of his own authorship published in this collection, between the years of 1931 and 1947, trying to identify his strategies to legitimate his ideas while self-constructing himself as an important author.||Francisco José de Oliveira Vianna is one of the most important Brazilian intellectuals of the first decades of the XX century, one of the pioneers of the sociological studies in Brazil andone of the main authors of the so called authoritarian thought. His trajectory as an author - which started in Revista do Brasil- reached the top with the inclusion of his titles in the Brasiliana Collection published by the Companhia Editora Nacional. This paper has the main goal of analysing the prefaces written by Vianna for the books of his own authorship published in this collection, between the years of 1931 and 1947, trying to identify his strategies to legitimate his ideas while self-constructing himself as an important author.||Francisco José de Oliveira Vianna é um dos mais reconhecidos intelectuais brasileiros das primeiras décadas do século XX, um dos pioneiros dos estudos sociológicos no Brasil e um dos principais autores do chamado pensamento autoritário. Sua trajetória editorial - iniciada na Revista do Brasil - atingiu o ápice com a inclusão de títulos de sua autoria na coleção Brasiliana, editada pela Companhia Editora Nacional. A presente comunicação tem como objetivo principal analisar os prefácios escritos por Vianna para os livros de sua autoria publicados nesta coleção, entre os anos de 1931 e 1947, com vistas a identificar as suas estratégias de legitimação de suas idéias e o seu processo de construção de autoria.
