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Ray Bradbury, whom Americans call the 'king of science fiction novels', attempts a scathing satire with his groundbreaking, fantastical, and dreamlike book 'Fahrenheit 451', a satire on the materialistic and wholly technical culture of the late 20th century.
Of a world that lives in the age of television and electronic music from the radio and finds books and the idealistic world they represent unnecessary and futile.
Bradbury ridicules the people of this era, who are satisfied with the comforts offered to them but have no thoughts or memories. They live their lives in collective electronic madness, in rooms where the walls are vast television screens, and all night they wear headphones from which a torrent of music and speeches flows.
The technocratic culture is an accepted state, while there is always a small minority of irredeemable romantics and idealists.
Montag, the hero of the book, is a typical representative of the authority that vigilantly promotes the dissemination and establishment of technocratic ideology. However, he is a restless man, with interests and questions. In a crisis of conscience, he jumps to the opposite camp of the world of spirit and ideas, which, though quantitatively small, remains the ultimate victor at the moment when the culture of machines and meticulous technological advancements self-destructs.
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
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- Author
- Ray Bradbury
- Publisher
- Grigori
- Original Title
- Fahrenheit 451
- Publishers
- Gregory
- Type
- Science Fiction, Classic Literature
- Subtitle
- Burn the books
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 182
- Publication Date
- 1968
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789603336037
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