Platero y yo
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
8430607726
Publish date: 1959
Publisher: Taurus
Pages no: 261
Edition language: Spanish
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 ...