451° Fahrenheit
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451° Fahrenheit
9.99 €
451° Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper ignites and burns. Bradbury's philosophical dystopia paints a bleak picture of the development of post-industrial society. This is the world of the future, in which all written editions are ruthlessly destroyed by a special squad of firemen, and storage of books is prosecuted by law, interactive television successfully serves the general dumbing down, punitive psychiatry resolutely deals with rare dissidents, and on the hunt for incorrigible dissidents goes electric dog ... A novel that brought its creator worldwide fame. Philosophical dystopia Ray Bradbury paints a bleak picture of the development of post-industrial society. A novel that brought its creator world fame. Sensational was Bradbury's statement in 2007 that "451° Fahrenheit" is misunderstood. This book is not about government censorship, it is the story of how television destroys interest in reading books. In the early 1950s, most Americans had never seen a television set, but Bradbury predicted a new era of freedom, affluence, and entertainment when the desire to be happy multiplied by political correctness would lead to the banning of books. "Colored people don't like the book Little Black Sambo. Burn it.... Whites don't like Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn that one too. Somebody wrote a book about how smoking predisposes you to lung cancer. The tobacco manufacturers are panicking. Burn that book. ...A book is a loaded gun in a neighbor's house. Burn it! Unload the gun!"
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