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Original Title:	Platero y yo
ISBN:	0395623650 (ISBN13: 9780395623657)
Edition Language:	Spanish
Characters:	Platero

Platero y yo

Juan Ramón Jiménez

Hardcover | Pages: 47 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 6298 Users | 359 Reviews

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Platero y yo es una narración de Juan Ramón Jiménez que recrea poéticamente la vida y muerte del burro Platero. Es muy celebre el primer parrafo: “Platero es pequeño, peludo, suave; tan blando por fuera, que se diría todo de algodón, que no lleva huesos. Sólo los espejos de azabache de sus ojos son duros cual dos escarabajos de cristal negro. Lo dejo suelto y se va al prado y acaricia tibiamente, rozándolas apenas, las florecillas rosas, celestes y gualdas... Lo llamo dulcemente: ¿Platero?, y viene a mi con un trotecillo alegre, que parece que se ríe, en no sé que cascabeleo ideal...” La primera edición se publico en 1914 (Ediciones De La Lectura) y en 1917 se publicó la edición completa, compuesta por 138 capítulos (Editorial Calleja, Madrid). Quedaba claro que era un texto adulto, aunque por su sencillez y transparencia se adecuara perfectamente a la imaginación y al gusto de los niños. Algunos capítulos encerraban una cierta critica social, revelando una dimensión del autor que muchos tardaron en advertir. El propio Juan Ramón Jiménez, en un prologuillo a la edición aclaraba: “Yo nunca he escrito ni escribiré nada para niños porque creo que el niño puede leer los libros que lee el hombre, con determinadas excepciones que a todos se le ocurren.” El poeta tenía la intención de ampliar el texto hasta los 190 capítulos; de hecho, existen tres adicionales, escritos en la década de 1920. Juan Ramón Jiménez planeó también una segunda parte, denominada Otra vida de Platero, de la que incluso esbozó algunos títulos. Un proyecto que, como el de publicar Platero y yo en cuadernos sueltos, no llegaría nunca a ver la luz.

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Title	:	Platero y yo
Author	:	Juan Ramón Jiménez
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 47 pages
Published	:	April 18th 1994 by Clarion Books (first published 1914)
Categories	:	Poetry. Classics. Fiction. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Cultural. Spain

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Platero in the title is narrator's pet donkey. Jimenez sometimes talks to him sometimes talks about him in these prose poems either talking about memories (real? no idea) of experiences they had in each-other's company - simple pleasures, children, animals or cruel tragedies (death of people or animals, old age etc).One of the personal favorite chapters:The White Mare"I have come home sad, Platero. Look: as I was coming through the Calle de las Flores, already at the Portada, in the very site



Platero y yo is a work similar in spirit to a tradition practiced by Poles on December 24. For our vigil supper (Wigilia), we put the best hay that we can find under the tablecloth in the hope that the prayers said during the meal will bless the hay. After the meal is finished before leaving for the Shepherd's mass at midnight we give the hay to the animals in the barn (if such we have). The point of the ritual is to remind us that as Christians we have a duty to love and respect those animals

So charming that it inspired me to go and wander Moguer, eat and drink its soul in bread and orange wine, pay homage at Ximenezs childhood home, and then learn Spanish. Soon I will re-read this book in the language in which it was written. Its that lovely.

Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958) was a Spanish poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1956. He mostly wrote erotic poems but critics say that they were in "true" French form. However, in 1914, he gave tribute to his hometown (an Andalusian village of Moguer in the south of Spain) with this beautiful book, Platero and I: An Andalusian Elegy. Originally written in Spanish, it is about a friendship between a man and his donkey. However, just like in any other well-loved children's books, this

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This is one of the most beautifully written and moving books I have ever read, and is definitely in my top-ten favorite books of all time list. The first time I picked it up I when was my mother gave it to me as a child. I have read it many times over, and I don't think I will ever tire of it. A series of vignettes about life in a small village in Spain, told by a poet whose most beloved companion is his donkey Platero, it is a meditation on love, life, and death, on poverty and injustice and