普拉特罗和我 (1914)

小银和我（西班牙语：Platero y yo）是西班牙作家胡安·拉蒙·希梅内斯所著的图书。书中，作家用诗意的语言再现了一只名叫“小银”的小驴的生活。故事的第一段就充满了趣味：毛茸茸的小银玲珑而温顺，外表是那样的柔软，软得通身像一腔纯净的棉絮，没有一根骨头。唯有一双宝石般发亮的眼珠，才坚硬得象两颗精美明净的黑水晶的甲虫。我把它解开，它自己就向草地走去，漫不经心地用前吻微微地去嗅触草地上的小花；那些玫瑰红的、天蓝的、金黄的花朵……我轻轻地呼唤：“小银呢？”它就仿佛带着满意的笑容，轻盈地向我走来，不知为什么会像是一只小小的风铃在娴雅地摇晃……

作者在创作时并没有根据主题按顺序写，而是把自己童年时期对于莫格尔的印象，感受和回忆拼接在一起，使得这本书读起来像是一本日记——只有那些最有趣的事件，想法和感受被详细地记录了下来。然而它又不是一本日记或自传，而是作者从那段时期的各种回忆中整理出来的一个故事集。

历史

该书于1914年第一次出版，并在1917年发布了142页的完整版。作为一本面向成年人的作品，书中的许多章节隐晦地表达了作者对社会的批判，需要花费很多时间才能读懂。虽然如此，语言通俗易懂的《小银和我》却对孩子们有很大的吸引力。作者自己曾在序言中说过：“我从来没有，以后也不会专门为孩子们写故事。因为我相信，除了一些大家都能想到的例外之外，孩子们能像成人一样读懂所有书籍。”

诗人曾有过把书增编至190章的打算，在1920至30年间他曾写过三个增篇。他也曾计划要写一本续集“小银的另一段生活”，但这个想法和出版《小银与我》活页本的计划最终都没有实现。

作者将此书献给与他特别亲厚的阿戈迪嘉，他在书中写道：“谨以此书怀念阿戈迪嘉，那个在太阳街上赠与我黑莓和康乃馨的可怜疯女人。”

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

Plot

Platero is a silver-colored donkey (plata means 'silver' in Spanish; platero means 'silvery') who throughout the years is seemingly the only constant friend and companion of the author, who makes observations to and confides in him. The author believes that Platero understands everything, except for the language of humans, just as humans do not know the language of animals, but he gives his master joy and sincere warmth.

Adaptations

In 1960, the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco composed a suite of music for guitar with narrator based on the stories in the book. In 1968, the Spanish film director Alfredo Castellón adapted the book into a movie by the same title. The guitarist and composer Eduardo Sainz de la Maza also wrote a suite of eight pieces for guitar based on Platero Y Yo, which bears the same title.

A theatrical adaptation has been written by Josep-Antoni Garí, published in the literary magazine Ex Tempore and presented at the literary evening of the Circle of Writers of the United Nations, in Geneva, on 20 January 2017, thus commemorating the centenary of the work.