In 1953, Spanish poet and Nobel laureate Juan Ramón Jiménez wrote his last book, Time and Space, while living in exile in America. He wrote it as an “inner monologue” of poetic autobiography. It’s written in a stream of consciousness, an attempt to capture his “inner cinematography.”
Despite the (high art) literary premise of the book, in the prose fragments, Jiménez shows us he is not above snobbery, bravado, and petty
