Platero Y Yo (Platero and I), Juan Ramon Jimenez (3.0)
A sweet ode to a town and donkey in the southwest of Spain,
this book is a series of one to two page vignettes between a man and his
donkey, Platero. A Nobel Prize winner for his poetry, the small musings here
are quite poetic. Cleverly he has written them as for children, but with a lot
of symbolism and metaphors for adults to enjoy. Being written long ago, a few
of the characters are written stereotypically. Sadly the flow of the words
comes to a halt when you come upon misogynistic or racist terms. One can blame
the time, though even with a lack of enmity, it still clangs in your ears. If
you can get through the handful of these, the rest of the book is quirky and
sweet, much like Platero.
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