by the El Reportero’s news services
Don Quijote ebook
In the same building in which Juan de la Cuesta printed “Don Quixote” between 1605 and 1615, Madrid’s Sociedad Cervantina on Tuesday presented the e-book edition most faithful to the original magnum opus of Miguel de Cervantes, a volume put out by the Bolchiro publishing house.
After viewing the e-book for many years like the giants the Spanish knight errant thought he saw in the windmills of La Mancha, the tale of Don Quixote has now broken into the new format.
Cervantes expert and professor at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Florencio Sevilla, as a representative of old school academic rigor; Bolchiro editor Pablo Nolla, as the leader of the new technology, and actor Jose Sacristan, a symbol of the oral tradition for interpreting Don Quixote on different occasions, all attended the ceremony to publicly present the electronic edition.
“We’ve joined with absolute harmony the most up-to-date technological advances with the most demanding critical and philological guarantees,” Sevilla said about the e-book, the cover of which shows, symbolically, a piece of paper torn into four sections, each of which bears one of the following syllables: don, qui, jo and te.
The edition includes 296 high-quality Gustav Dore engravings, 3,444 notes on the original text that appear as pop-up windows to facilitate the reading experience and an introduction with a chronology and critical analysis of the work.
The e-book was created using the most modern technology in the publishing field, the ePub3 format, and is on sale online.
Pitbull refuses to take stage in Bolivia over safety concerns
Pitbull cited safety problems when he declined to take the stage for a concert in the eastern Bolivian city of Santa Cruz, but Ruckatan-media accounts Wednesday said he made the decision after two of the promoter’s employees were arrested.
The Cuban-American rapper said on Twitter that he while felt bad about canceling Tuesday night’s show, his decision was motivated by concern for the safety of his fans.
Santa Cruz’s police chief, Col. Lily Cortez, told reporters that two people, one of them a foreign national, were arrested at the venue with a loaded gun, a baseball bat and a forged Bolivian police credential.
Released within hours, the two men were employees of the company that organized the concert, media outlets said.
The promoters promised to reschedule the concert, but did not set a date, and the roughly 12,000 fans who came to Santa Cruz’s Tahuichi stadium to see Pitbull perform did not hide their disappointment.
Pitbull’s concert Wednesday night in La Paz will proceed as planned, promoter Boris Navarro said.
