Platero and I/Platero y yo

Platero and I/Platero y yoRecipient of the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature, Jian Ramn Jimnez (18811958) ranks among the foremost Spanish poets. The early influences of German Romanticism and French Symbolism led Jimnez to the development of his unique voice, and he became a leader in the vanguard known as the modernistas, who staged a Spanish literary revival at the turn of the twentieth century. Jimnez's most popular work, Platero y yo, unfolds in his native Andalusia. A

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is the natural medium for expressing the freedom of the living human form

it becomes absorbing drama

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