"If there are in the world literature two or three books capable of giving back to the people their childhood soul, Platero and I is among them," commented the noted French Journal Figaro.This poignant,delicately perceptive book-an unforgettable portrait of life in and around the remote Spanish town of Moguer, seen through the eyesofthe author as he talks to his silver-gray donkey Platero-is unquestionably the most famous work of Jual Ramon Jimenez, giant of twentieth-century Spanish letters and winner of the 1956 Nobel prize. Time has called it "one of the great classics of modern Spanish Literature."
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