Metrovia

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, a description of the feeling evoked by a place, which is reflected in the book in an alternation between the immediately recorded and the subjective interpretation. Understood in the way that the seen is turned and edited during the course of the book, so that it gradually dissolves the concrete in order to assume a more abstract form, which encapsulates the mood. Of course, we get 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, i.a. 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. The city has an immediate recognizability by its strong European touch, which calls for a recognition that nevertheless remains a stranger. Precisely in the imperceptible dispute between, on the one hand, what seems