Platero and I

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."