451° Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper ignites and burns. Bradbury's philosophical dystopia paints a bleak picture of the development of a post-industrial society: this is a world of the future in which all written publications are mercilessly destroyed by a special fire brigade, and the possession of books is prosecuted by law, interactive television successfully serves the general stupefaction, punitive psychiatry decisively deals with rare dissidents, and an electric dog goes hunting for incorrigible dissidents...
A novel that brought its author worldwide fame.
Ray Bradbury's philosophical dystopia paints a bleak picture of the development of a post-industrial society. The novel that brought its author worldwide fame. Bradbury's 2007 statement that Fahrenheit 451 is misunderstood was sensational. This book is not about government censorship, it is a story about how television destroys interest in reading books. In the early 1950s, most Americans had never seen a television, but Bradbury predicted the advent of a new era of freedom, prosperity and entertainment, when the desire to be happy, multiplied by political correctness, will lead to the banning of books. "The colored people don't like the book "Little Black Sambo". Burn it... - The white people don't like "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Burn that too. Someone wrote a book about how smoking predisposes to lung cancer. The tobacco manufacturers are panicking. Burn that book. ...a book is a loaded gun in your neighbor's house. Burn it! Unload the gun!"
Author: Ray Bradbury
Translation: Babenko V.
Year of release: 2021
Publisher: Eksmo
Pages: 320
Cover type: soft cover
Dimensions: 200x125x19 mm
ISBN: 978-5-04-098166-3