by Juan Ramón Jiménez · Editorial Everest · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788424113025
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«Platero y yo» is the lyrical prose work by Juan Ramón Jiménez, published by Editorial Everest in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together brief lyrical sketches of the poet alongside Platero, a donkey from Moguer, with the Andalusian landscape, its people and everyday scenes in the background. The prose, close to verse, is an elegy on nature, friendship and the beauty of the simple. This edition includes illustrations by Enrique Sánchez Moreiro and a prologue by Antonio Gala.
Third edition in the Lecturas 2000 collection, published in 2006. Work originally published in 1914.
Recommended reading from age 12, it is a classic read by children and adults in Spanish-speaking countries.
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".
