Fahrenheit 451
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Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.
Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.
Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.
When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.
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After years of working as a fireman one who burns books and enjoys his work Guy Montag meets a young girl who makes him question his profession and the values of the society in which he lives. Stephen Hoye's narration is perfectly matched to the subject matter: his tone is low and ominous, and his cadence shifts with the prose to ratchet up tension and suspense. He produces spot-on voices, and his versions of the gruff Captain Beatty, the playful Clarisse, and the fearful professor Faber are especially impressive. A Ballantine paperback.
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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury is among the forefathers of science-fiction, together with Isaac Asimov or Philip K.Dick. In this novel though, there’s no such thing as aliens or futuristic robots, but a dictat of a society yet to come, seen from the year 1953. Yet the depiction is so thin and anticipatory that you’d swear Bradbury has made it back from the future… Deterioration of the critical mind through barred access to any thought development. Books get destroyed and burnt-out, considered dangerous by and for the power in command, the way there were in at-the-time recent history.Televisual stupidescence barricades people’s lives in the form of giants screens covering the walls and continuously showing mindless soaps, spectacular newsflashes with interludes of neverendingads. Never forget that this was written back in 1953. Fahrenheit 451 screams with truths about our own society, projecting a dystopic pictogram of what we’ve become. A little worrying. A littlescary. Not a million years away from Orwell’s 1984, written only 5 years before. This world is our world, darkened by the wars, inspired by the fear of losing control, of losing our free will to the greater plan, whatever that is. Not easy to read, the style is voluntarily brutal, straight to the point. Bradbury never yields to easier writing, more flowing streams of words. I was forced to like(!), as anyone would be.