Fahrenheit 451--the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns ...
mass market paperback, 190 pages
English language
Published Nov. 2, 1991 by Ballantine Books.
The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden.
Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. And he enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs or the joy of watching pages consumed by flames, never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid. Then Guy met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think. And Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do...
--back cover
as distopias costumam ser associadas com um governo totalitário controlando uma massa de pessoas.
o que me interessa mais nesse livro é a construção de uma opressão por parte do próprio povo: o desinteresse por buscar conhecimento, que surge das mídias de massa, torna-os ignorantes.
o final da história é particularmente emocionante.
I had read this book a long time ago and remembered it as a difficult read - my english was not quite on the same level as it is today. When re-reading it now i was blown away. An amazing story paired with wonderful storytelling. After reading "boring" contemporary novels this was delightfully refreshing
É uma distopia clássica, li há muito tempo mas lembro de não ter achado tão envolvente quanto as primas mais famosas (1984 e Admirável Mundo Novo). Recomendo o conto "Bright Phoenix" que inspirou o livro (é curtinho e achei melhor que o livro).
Una novela infantiloide. Y no me refiero a los personajes, que viven en un sistema que los quiere idiotizados, me refiero a la forma en la que está escrita, parece un libro dirigido a niños o a gente de derecha (que ya sabemos que no le da la cabeza para mucho). Si quieres una buena distopía: 1984.
Lika bra som alltid
This book was on my list of 'important books I somehow did not read before now'. It is such a cultural reference point that one assumes everyone has read it, but I suspect that although most people understand the title (the point at which books burn), they may be like me and have not bothered to actually pick it up.
It is reminiscent of Atwood's 'Handmaid's Tale', and falls into that category of 'futurology' that edges on Sci-Fi because by necessity it must speculate about how the future will work, but is really a different genre. Like Atwood's work, It is more concerned with how society may work in future, rather than how machines will work. That said, it is astonishingly prescient when the book does speculate, for instance the mechanical hound and the interactive entertainment screens.
As it is a novel depicting dystopia, one naturally wishes to locate it …
This book was on my list of 'important books I somehow did not read before now'. It is such a cultural reference point that one assumes everyone has read it, but I suspect that although most people understand the title (the point at which books burn), they may be like me and have not bothered to actually pick it up.
It is reminiscent of Atwood's 'Handmaid's Tale', and falls into that category of 'futurology' that edges on Sci-Fi because by necessity it must speculate about how the future will work, but is really a different genre. Like Atwood's work, It is more concerned with how society may work in future, rather than how machines will work. That said, it is astonishingly prescient when the book does speculate, for instance the mechanical hound and the interactive entertainment screens.
As it is a novel depicting dystopia, one naturally wishes to locate it in the 1984-BNW continuum. Orwell’s 1984 suggests we will be destroyed by what we fear, whereas Huxley’s Brave New World proposes that we will be imprisoned by what we love. Bradbury’s book veers towards Huxley, in so far as society is kept quiescent by consumerism and entertainment, whilst it is also kept in a cage of enforced (and heavily policed) ignorance.
It is a short book, a gripping read, and well worth making the effort. As a warning about the dangers to society of indulging ignorance and celebrating bland superficiality, It is still fresh and relevant.
