Download or read book Platero and I written by Juan Ramón Jiménez and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An exquisite book, rich, shimmering, and truly incomparable.” —The New Yorker This lyric portrait of a boy’s companionship with his little donkey, Platero, is the masterpiece of Juan Ramón Jiménez, the Spanish poet awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature. Poetic, elegiac, it reveals the simple pleasures of life in a in a remote Andalusian village and is a classic work of literature, beloved by adults and children alike.