San Antonio College Library

"Platero y yo ... is the allegoric story of a friendship between Platero, a donkey, and the poet himself. While walking across the gentle Andalusian landscape the poet, together with his faithful friend, conjures up scenes from his youth. As the poet explores illusions and certainties, the donkey, through his wisdom, assists him in rediscovering his love for life"--Insert, p. 7

Awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature, Juan Ramon Jimenez was a master of impressionistic language and imagery. This program explores the Spanish poet's life and career with the help of scholarly interviews, archival photographs, and excerpts from Jimenez' writings. Conveying his youthful interest in Romanticism and Symbolism, his subsequent emphasis on color and tonality, and his lifelong engagement with the spiritual dimensions of death and...

Awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature, Juan Ramon Jimenez was a master of impressionistic language and imagery. This program explores the Spanish poet's life and career with the help of scholarly interviews, archival photographs, and excerpts from Jimenez' writings. Conveying his youthful interest in Romanticism and Symbolism, his subsequent emphasis on color and tonality, and his lifelong engagement with the spiritual dimensions of death and...