by Juan Ramón Jiménez · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788477720003
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«Platero y yo» is Juan Ramón Jiménez's work of poetic prose, in a paperback edition published by Alborada Ediciones, in Spanish.
Through lyrical vignettes, a poet and his donkey Platero walk through Moguer, Juan Ramón Jiménez's hometown, and its surroundings. The book combines everyday scenes, portraits of animals, and reflections on nature and the passage of time, with a tone between nostalgia and elegy, and has been described as a lyrical autobiography.
This edition belongs to the collection La locomotora. Juan Ramón Jiménez won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956. Platero y yo was first published in 1914 and expanded in 1917.
For readers of classics of Spanish literature and for those approaching Juan Ramón Jiménez's poetic prose for the first time, both children and adults.
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".
