Platero and me. Classical literature for children

Platero y yo , the work of Juan Ramón Jiménez , celebrates its centenary. This literary work is one of the most translated along with El Quijote by Cervantes, and although it may look like children's literature, it is also focused on an adult audience. Therefore, Platero and I is perfect for parents

Platero y yo, the work of Juan Ramón Jiménez, celebrates its centenary. This literary work is one of the most translated along with El Quijote by Cervantes, and although it may look like children's literature, it is also focused on an adult audience.

Therefore, Platero and I is perfect for parents to read with their children and enjoy in the company of one of the best works of Spanish literature. In Guiainfantil we have compiled three fragments to commemorate these one hundred years.

Fragment of Platero and me. Traditional literature

Platero is small, hairy, soft; so soft on the outside, that it would all be cotton, that it does not have bones. Only the jet mirrors of his eyes are hard like two black glass beetles.

I leave him loose, and he goes to the meadow, and caresses warmly with his snout, barely touching them, the little pink flowers, celestial and golden ... I call him sweetly: 'Silversmith?', And he comes to me with a cheerful trotter that It seems that he laughs, in I do not know what ideal jingle.

Eat how much I give him. He likes oranges, tangerines, muscatel grapes, all of amber, purple figs, with their crystalline droplet of honey.

It is tender and cuddly just like a child, that a girl...; but strong and dry inside, like stone. When I pass over him, on Sundays, through the last alleys of the town, the men of the country, dressed in clean and slow, keep looking at him (...)

I read in a Dictionary: ASNOGRAPHY, sf: It is said, ironically, by description of the ass. Poor ass! So good, so noble, as sharp as you are!

Ironically ... Why? Not a serious description you deserve, you, whose description would be a story of spring ? If the man who is good should be told ass! If the ass is bad you should say man! Ironically ... Of you, so intellectual, friend of the old man and the child, the brook and the butterfly, the sun and the dog, the flower and the moon, patient and reflective, melancholy and kind, Marco Aurelio of the meadows.Platero, who undoubtedly understands, stares at me with his bright eyes, of a soft hardness, in which the sun shines, tiny and sparkling in a brief and convex green-black firmament. Oh! If his hairy, idyllic, stubborn head knew I was doing him justice,

that I'm better than those men who write Dictionaries , almost as good as him!And I have put aside the book:

ASNOGRAPHY , figurative sense: It must be said, with irony, of course, by description of the imbecile man who writes Dictionaries (...)One moment, Platero, I come to be with you death. I have not lived. Nothing has happened.

You are alive and I with you ... I come alone. Children are already men and women. The ruin ended his work on us three - you know already - and on his desert we are standing, owners of the best wealth: that of our heart.My heart! I wish the heart would be enough for them two as it is enough for me. I wish they would think the same way I think. But no; It would be better if you do not think ... That way you will not have in your memory the sadness of my evils, of my cynicisms, of my impertinences. Con With what joy, how well I tell you these things that no one else but you should know! ... I will order my actions so that

the present is all of life and it seems to me the memory

; so that the serene future will leave the past the size of a violet and its color, quiet in the shade, and its soft smell. You, Platero, are alone in the past. But what else does the past give you that you live in the eternal, that, as I here, you hold in your hand, grana as the heart of God perennial, the sun of each dawn?FIN