The aim of this dissertation is examine the representation about the Nation and the self created by Capistrano de Abreu. By the articulation that employ between present and past, by the contrast in the historic narrative in the book Chapters of Colonial History, the intent is examine the impasse between the colonial inheritance and the specific ethics of the behavior - mounted in the compliment of the constancy - in a text elaborated with a proper explicative coherence, revealed in the overcoming of the transoceanismo and the populates of the territory. In as an instant, the boarding if dislocates for the analysis of his correspondence. Thus, the representations before excited dialogue in another terrain, one searches to understand as the author exercises his self-fashioning while the affirmation, in his proper writing of itself, of the values in that compliment of the differentiated position front the sensation of the provisory one and the unaccomplished of the nation. The question about formation and dissolution.