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Juan Ramón Jiménez
Darío helped Jiménez to publish his debut collection, Almas de violeta (Souls of Violet), in 1900. However, following his father’s death later that year, Jiménez suffered a breakdown. He stayed in a sanatorium in Bordeaux, where he and his doctor’s wife carried on an affair, then another in Madrid, whose staff of novice nuns inspired some of his erotic poetry. He moved back to his hometown in 1905, writing prolifically, as he would throughout most of his life. His poetry during this period features an emphasis on color and music and was influenced by the French symbolist poetry that informed the modernistas, as well as by German Romantic literature and the works of W. B. Yeats.
Jiménez moved back to Madrid in 1912, working as a publication director for the Residencia de Estudiantes of Madrid. There, he wrote his celebrated prose poem collection Platero y yo (Platero and I), a book about a writer and his donkey that has seen multiple modern adaptations. In 1916, he married Zenobia Camprubí, a Spanish poet, writer, and translator who brought the works of
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100 years: Platero y Yo
Juan Ramón Jiménez is one of the most celebrated Spanish writers of the 20th Century. He was born on December 23rd, 1881 in Moguer, Andalusia, Spain. He wrote and painted throughout his childhood, and studied law at the University of Seville. He never practiced law, however.
He published his first two books in 1900 at the age of 19. He gained the attention of Madrid poet Ruben Dario, who invited Jiménez to Madrid. Jiménez battled a severe depression during this time as a result of his father’s death and soon returned to Moguer. He then went to France for treatment in a sanatorium. He then moved back to Madrid and then returned to Moguer. During this time he published Elejías puras (Pure Elegies) in 1908 and La soledad Sonora (Sonorous Solitude) in 1911.
In 1914, he published Platero y Yo, a prose poem about his homeland in Andalusia. Platero y Yo (Platero and I) tells the story of a man and his donkey, and the life they lead in Andalusia. It is a beloved story, popular in bo
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Life of Juan Ramon Jimenez
Juan Ramon Jimenez is considered to be one of the best Spanish poets of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize of Literature in recognition for all his literary work, and especially for his book "Platero y Yo", which is studied and partially memorized in all Spanish schools.
Juan Ramon Jimenez - Life
Juan Ramon Jimenez was born in 1881 in a town called Moguer, in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia. After studying in Huelva during his childhood, in 1896 he moves to Seville to be a painter, thinking that that was his calling. Once there he starts to attend the literary gatherings in El Ateneo of Seville, and starts to write some prose and poems. He also begins to write contributions for some newspapers and magazines in Seville and Huelva. Pushed by his father, he tried to study Law in the University of Seville, but he drops out in 1899.
In 1900 Juan Ramon Jimenez moves to Madrid and published his first two texts: "Ninfeas" and "Alma de violeta". The death of his father and the dire economic situation
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