View of Moguer from the Roof (02:09)įrom the roof of the house of Juan Ramon Jimenez and expansive view of the town of Moguer is viewed. The actor playing Juan Ramon Jimenez gives a tour of the house and surrounding scenery where the writer spent most of his childhood in Moguer. The donkey is just a literary technique of the author to explore his solitude in his native town of Moguer, Andalucia. "Platero and I" is not a book about a donkey. The writer explains that Platero is a symbol and a synthesis of all the donkeys that his family owned in Moguer, Andalucia. Juan Ramon Jimenez Reads Poem (02:57)Īs a comparison, Juan Ramon Jimenez reads excerpts from a poem to support his idea that "Platero and I" can be also classified as lyric poetry. Compelled to classify his book, the writer states that it is lyric poetry, even though it is not written in verses.
Juan Ramon Jimenez stresses the importance of the character Platero not talking. The writer reads a fragment of the book which clearly refutes this.
Juan Ramon Jimenez is offended when the interviewer refers to "Platero and I" as a book for children, an animal fable. In spite of the writer's discomfort and the frivolity of the interviewer, Juan Ramon Jimenez describes his birth in 1881 and his childhood in Andalucia. The interviewer shows little knowledge of literature and mistakes a picture of the great Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral for Zenobia Camprubi, wife of Juan Ramon Jimenez. Team Arrives for Interview (04:24) FREE PREVIEWĬhannel 12 news team arrives at the Puerto Rican residence of Spanish writer and Nobel Laureate Juan Ramon Jimenez for an interview.
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