Platero & I by Juan Ramón Jiménez - Great Spanish Literature Classic - Spain

Platero & I by Juan Ramón Jiménez - Great Spanish Literature Classic - A Book About Village in Spain A great classic of modern Spanish literature. Sheer descriptive magic. An exquisite bookrich, shimmering, truly incomparable. The New Yorker: enchanting dialogue, or is it a monologue, between a man and his burro has been translated with great skill and sympathy. Winthrop Sargeant Juan Ramón Jiménez tells his burro Platero about their native Andalusian village of Moguer. An evanescent portrait of provincial Spainits, homes, animals, children, & eccentrics. Pure-hearted, silent burro sometimes a witness, sometimes a participant, the routines of daily life take on a certain poignancy. Jiménez anxiously searches for & removes the long green thorn from Plateros hoof & donkey tenderly nuzzles him. Platero brays to his girlfriend burro in a field & trots hesitatingly, unwillingly past. Together Platero & his master make friends w/ the parrot, belonging to a local French doctor, whose sole & frequent pronouncement is Ce nest rien. Both prolific and profound, Juan Ramón Jiménez wrote over seventy books, he won a 1956 Nobel Prize in literature. A dean of Hispanic poets, a pioneer & the source of all those who wrote in the Spanish tongue after him. The translator, poet & scholar, Antonio de Nicolás, received his education in Spain, India & the US. A prolific writer, he contributed to learned journals, magazines and book reviews & has published a number of books