In the preface to the inaugural book of Marcos Vinicius Faustini, Luiz Eduardo Soares says: "The movement of Faustini's text is sinuous as his urban trajectories, and devious as his existential journey". This statement opens quite provocative perspectives on the phenomenological conception present Faustini's narrative. This paper analyzes how Faustini creates a narrator/actor who, instead of writing the city, writes himself on it. With this performative movement, the author contrasts the common tendency to divide the urban space in center x periphery, city x slum, hill x asphalt. Using the mythology of Afro-Brazilian religions, I analyze how the narrator/actor of Guia Afetivo da Periferia incorporates features of the Orixá Exú and consubstantiates the city phenomenologically.
Exu; phenomenology; city; Marcus Vinicius Faustini