Metrovia by Krass Clement is a book about Buenos Aires, but not in the usual sense as a book about this whole city with its architecture and famous squares. Rather, it is a description of the feeling evoked by a place, which in the book is reflected in an alternation between the immediately recorded and the subjective interpretation. Understood in the way that the seen is turned and edited throughout the book, the gathering gradually dissolves the concrete in order to assume a more abstract form, which encapsulates the mood. Of course, the reader gets a sense of the city's physical character, but most of all, the atmosphere is maintained through a repeated return to the city's subway, Metrovia, with all that it precisely offers of human diversity. There is a wide alternation between recurring themes, including the Natural History Museum, which on a concrete level is an expression of a matter-of-fact scientificity but which in the book gradually acquires an unreal and fluid meaning. Clement's quiet, melancholy method—established in earlier works such as Drum and Dublin—is applied here to a South American capital, its trains and its citizens at the start of a new century.