Platero and I
This lyric portrait of life--and the little donkey, Platero--in a remote Andalusian village is the masterpiece of Juan Ramón Jiménez, the Spanish poet awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature.
This lyric portrait of life--and the little donkey, Platero--in a remote Andalusian village is the masterpiece of Juan Ramón Jiménez, the Spanish poet awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780292764798 (0292764790)
Publish date: January 1st 1983
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Pages no: 218
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
20th Century,
Modern,
Poetry,
Short Stories,
Spanish Literature,
Nobel Prize,
Spain
A poet (Juan Ramón Jiménez), a donkey (Platero), a town in the Spanish countryside (Moguer). The author wanders with Platero, eating figs and quinces from the trees, resting in the shade, observing the animals and the people (mostly poor and ragged), and finding beauty everywhere. He describes what ...
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