by Juan Ramón Jiménez · FisicalBook · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401905810
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«Platero y yo» is the Andalusian elegy by Juan Ramón Jiménez, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (358 pages, in Spanish).
The book portrays life in the Andalusian village of Moguer through the experiences of a poet and his donkey, Platero, with whom he shares walks and conversations. In brief lyrical vignettes, Juan Ramón Jiménez evokes landscapes, people and customs, and reflects on the beauty of simplicity, childhood, friendship and death.
1987 edition, edited by Francisco López Estrada. No. 60 in the Clásicos Plaza & Janés collection. Juan Ramón Jiménez was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956.
A work commonly read by children and adults in Spanish-speaking countries, for those seeking poetry and classics of Spanish literature.
Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which in the Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistic purity". One of Jiménez's most important contributions to modern poetry was his advocacy of the concept of "pure poetry".
