Books by Juan Ramón Jiménez
Platero y yo (Narrativa) (Spanish Edition)
Juan Ramón mismo escribió: «Suele creerse que yo escribí Platero y yo para los niños, que es un libro para niños. No. En 1913, La Lectura, que sabía que yo estaba con ese libro, me pidió que adelantase un conjunto de sus páginas más idílicas para su Biblioteca Juventud. Entonces, alterando la idea momentáneamente, escribí este prólogo: Advertencia a los Hombres que lean este libro para niños Este breve libro, en donde la alegría y la pena son gemelas, cual las orejas de Platero, está escrito para… ¡Qué sé yo para quién!…, para quien escribimos los poetas líricos… Ahora que va a los niños, no le quito ni le pongo una coma. ¡Qué bien!» El declive de Platero y su persistencia en el abismo de las estampas que componen este libro nos hacen seguir, como lectores atentos, una secuencia de desgracias, relatadas desde la perspectiva de un niño. Platero y yo muestra una sensibilidad finísima exponiendo las desventuras de un animal con un tono intensamente conmovedor. Platero y yo es una parábola de la empatía entre un niño y un desventurado animal doméstico. Platero, el burro del pueblo, es la pena misma.
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The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work
Few have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than Juan Ramón Jiménez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning teacher of an entire generation of Spanish poets. In this series of aphorisms, Jiménez brings together the elements of perfect work, both in writing and in other realms. Among these elements—the wellsprings of any kind of creation—are instinct and inspiration, memory and forgetting, silence and noise, love and regret.
A treasure for poets and writers, The Complete Perfectionist includes helpful commentary by noted translator Christopher Maurer and shows perfection as a process of “becoming” rather than an end product. In these insightful pages, a poet haunted by perfection reveals his methods of writing and revision, and measures the social and ethical dimensions of el trabajo gustoso, or pleasurable work. This revised and expanded edition includes many aphorisms recently published in Spanish and not previously included.
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Platero Y Yo
by Stanley Appelbaum, Juan Ramón Jiménez
The most popular work by the great Spanish writer Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958), this is a series of autobiographical prose poems about the wanderings in Andalusia of a poet and his donkey. This new, accurate English translation is drawn from the 1917 edition. This is the only dual-language edition available. Introduction, Explanatory Notes.
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Platero and I
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.
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