The National Library of Spain presents a new portal of Don Quixote

USPA NEWS - The National Library of Spain (BNE its Spanish acronym), in collaboration with Iberdrola, through its Foundation in Spain, presents a new portal of Don Quixote, which allows access to more than 3,300 editions in 40 languages, with translations, adaptations and selections.

The website dedicated to Don Quixote born with the celebration of the fourth centenary of the publication of the Second Party and represents a pioneering approach that replaces the printed catalog for a digital product that can be continuously updated. Through its website is accessible to all editions of Don Quixote, from the first, in 1605, to the latest, as well as numerous adaptations, compilations, selections and school editions have been published and constitute a fundamental chapter in disseminating the work of Cervantes and the history of education in Spain.

He adapts the website to different devices provides a single point of access to all editions of Don Quixote that preserves the Library. For its implementation has been cataloged and reviewed the documentation of the major issues in different languages. It has also developed a specific search engine on the editions of Don Quixote in order to facilitate its location on the BNE catalog (containing more than four million bibliographic references). It also gives access to the digital version of the works in all cases where they are digitized.

The huge success of Don Quixote made from the beginning of its publishing history began to be translated into the major languages. All have their place in this website, which allows approaching most of the translations have been made. At its importance from a linguistic point of view joins access to the various interpretations of the work in relation to the different cultural references.