Platero and I

by Juan Ramón Jiménez, Eloïse Roach

Overview

This lyric portrait of life—and the little donkey, Platero—in a remote Andalusian village is the masterpiece of Juan Ramón Jiménez, the Spanish poet awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780292764798
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Publication date:	01/01/1957
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958) was a Spanish poet; he was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Table of Contents

• Translator's Acknowledgments
• Platero and I
• List of Chapters
  • I. Platero
  • II. White Butterflies
  • III. Twilight Games
  • IV. Eclipse
  • V. Fear
  • VI. Kindergarten
  • VII. The Crazy-Man
  • VIII. Judas
  • IX. Early Figs
  • X. Angelus
  • XI. The Pit
  • XII. The Thorn
  • XIII. The Swallows
  • XIV. The Stable
  • XV. The Castrated Colt
  • XVI. The House across the Street
  • XVII. The Little Idiot
  • XVIII. The Ghost
  • XIX. Landscape in Scarlet
  • XX. The Parrot
  • XXI. The Roof
  • XXII. Return
  • XVIII. The Locked Gate
  • XXIV. Don José, the Curate
  • XXV. Spring
  • XXVI. The Cistern
  • XXVII. The Mangy Dog
  • XXVIII. The Pool
  • XXIX. April Idyl
  • XXX. The Canary's Flight
  • XXXI. The Devil
  • XXXII. Liberty
  • XXXIII. The Romanies
  • XXXIV. The Sweetheart
  • XXXV. The Leech
  • XXXVI. The Three Old Women
  • XXXVII. The Cart
  • XXXVIII. Bread
  • XXXIX. Aglaia
  • XL. The Corona Pine
  • XLI. Darbón
  • XLII. The Child and the Water
  • XLIII. Friendship
  • XLIV. Lullaby
  • XLV. The Tree in the Yard
  • XLVI. The Consumptive Girl
  • XLVII. Benediction
  • XLVIII. Ronsard
  • XLIX. Peep Show
  • L. Wayside Flower
  • LI. Lord
  • LII. The Well
  • LIII. Peaches
  • LIV. The Kick
  • LV. Assography
  • LVI. Corpus Christi
  • LVII. Promenade
  • LVIII. The Cockfight
  • LIX. Nightfall
  • LX. The Stamp
  • LXI. The Mother Dog
  • LXII. She and We
  • LXIII. Sparrows
  • LXIV. Frasco Vélez
  • LXV. Summer
  • LXVI. Forest Fire
  • LXVII. The Brook
  • LXVIII. Sunday
  • LXIX. The Cricket's Song
  • LXX. Bullfight
  • LXXI. Storm
  • LXXII. Wine Harvest
  • LXXIII. Nocturne
  • LXXIV. Sarito
  • LXXV. Last Siesta
  • LXXVI. Fireworks
  • LXXVII. The Orchard
  • LXXVIII. The Moon
  • LXXIX. Play
  • LXXX. Wild Geese
  • LXXXI. The Little Girl
  • LXXXII. The Shepherd
  • LXXXIII. The Canary Dies
  • LXXXIV. The Hill
  • LXXXV. Autumn
  • LXXXVI. The Captive Dog
  • LXXXVII. The Greek Turtle
  • LXXXVIII. October Afternoon
  • LXXXIX. Antonia
  • XC. The Forgotten Grape Cluster
  • XCI. Admiral
  • XCII. Vignette
  • XLIII. Fish Scale
  • XCIV. Pinito
  • XCV. The River
  • XCVI. The Pomegranate
  • XCVii. The Old Cemetery
  • XLVIII. Lipiani
  • XCIX. The Castle
  • C. The Old Bull Ring
  • CI. Echo
  • CII. Fright
  • CIII. The Old Fountain
  • CIV. The Road
  • CV. Pine Nuts
  • CVI. The Runaway Bull
  • CVII. November Idyl
  • CVIII. The White Mare
  • CIX. Charivari
  • CX. The Gypsies
  • CXI. The Flame
  • CXII. Convalescence
  • CXIII. The Old Donkey
  • CXIV. Dawn
  • CXV. Small Flowers
  • CXVI. Christmas
  • CXVII. Ribera Street
  • CXVIII. Rainy Season
  • CXIX. She-Ass's Milk
  • CXX. Clear Night
  • CXXI. The Wreath of Parsley
  • CXXII. The Wise Men
  • CXXIII. Mons-Urium
  • CXXIV. Wine
  • CXXV. The Fable
  • CXXVI. Carnival
  • CXXVII. León
  • CXXVIII. The Windmill
  • CXXIX. The Tower
  • CXXX. The Sand-Dealer's Donkeys
  • CXXXI. Madrigal
  • CXXXII. Death
  • CXXXIII. Nostalgia
  • CXXXIV. The Sawhorse
  • CXXXV. Melancholy
  • CXXXVI. To Platero in the Heaven of Moguer
  • CXXXVII. Cardboard Platero
  • CXXXVIII. To Platero, en su Tierra

Editorial Reviews

An exquisite book, rich, shimmering, truly incomparable.

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An exquisite book, rich, shimmering, truly incomparable.-- "New Yorker"

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