Platero is the eponymous

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of the 1914 story ''

Platero and I ''Platero and I'', also translated as ''Platero and Me'' ( es, Platero y yo), is a 1914 Spanish prose poem written by Juan Ramón Jiménez. The book is one of the most popular works by Jiménez, and unfolds around a writer and his eponymous donke ...

'' (

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for ''Platero y yo''). The book is one of the most popular works by Spanish poet

Juan Ramón Jiménez Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (; 23 December 1881 – 29 May 1958) was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which in the Spanish language constitutes an example of high ...

, the recipient of the 1956

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. In 1960, the Italian composer

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (3 April 1895 – 16 March 1968) was an Italian composer, pianist and writer. He was known as one of the foremost guitar composers in the twentieth century with almost one hundred compositions for that instrument. In ...

composed a suite of music for guitar with narrator based on the book. Platero ("silvery") is described in the

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of the book as a "small donkey, a soft, hairy donkey: so soft to the touch that he might be said to be made of cotton, with no bones. Only the jet mirrors of his eyes are hard like two black crystal scarabs." The little donkey remains a symbol of tenderness, purity and naiveté, and is used by the author as a means of reflection about the simple joys of life, memories, and various characters and their ways of life. Primera edicion de 1914 de PLATERO Y YO

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Platero y yo at Project Gutenberg (in Spanish)
* {{librivox book , title=Platero y yo Fictional donkeys Characters in Spanish novels

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