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Platero and I, also translated as Platero and Me (Spanish: Platero y yo), is a 1914 Spanish prose poem written by Juan Ramón Jiménez. [1] The book is one of the most popular works by Jiménez, and unfolds around a writer and his eponymous donkey, Platero ("silvery"). Platero is described as a "small donkey, a soft, hairy donkey: so soft to ...
Bronze statue of Platero. Work from sculptor Leon Ortega; Moguer, Spain.. Platero is the eponymous donkey of the 1914 story Platero and I (English for Platero y yo).The book is one of the most popular works by Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez, the recipient of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Platero y yo para narrador y guitarra, Op. 190 (1960), text by Juan Ramón Jiménez) Tre preludi al Circeo, Op. 194 (1961) 24 caprichos de Goya, Op. 195 (1961) Sonatina, pour flute et guitare, Op. 205 (1965) Eclogues, for flute, English horn and guitar, Op. 206 (1965)
Although he was primarily a poet, Jiménez' prose work Platero y yo (1917; "Platero and I"; Platero is a donkey) sold well in Latin America and in translation won him popularity in the USA. [citation needed] He also collaborated with his wife in the translation of the Irish playwright John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea (1920). His poetic ...
In 2017, Lavernier first met the actor Ugo Dighero [8] with whom he began a collaboration for the show "Platero y Yo" [9] by Juan Ramon Jimenez and music by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. [10] The following year, master luthier Carlos Gonzalez Marcos created La Soñada (a new eleven-strings guitar) for contemporary music and he gave it to Christian ...
Baltasar Lobo was one of the artists who contributed to the Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas project and did the illustrations for the English translation of Platero y Yo by Juan Ramón Jiménez. In 1984, he received Spain's National Award for Plastic Arts. [3]
Platero y yo, for choir, soloists, and narrator, based on the poem by Juan Ramón Jiménez (1974) Cello Concerto no. 1 (1974) Elegía de la muerte de tres poetas españoles (1975) Variaciones sobre la resonancia de un grito, for 11 instruments, tape, and live electronics (1976–77) String Quartet no. 3 (1978)
Today, Moguer is also known as the birthplace of the poet Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958), winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956, perhaps best known for his prose work Platero y yo (1917; "Platero and I").