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| Author | Bradbury R. |
| Title | 451 po Farengejtu |
| Description | Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel about a future society in which books are declared dangerous and firemen are tasked to destroy them. Guy Montag serves this system until he meets a girl who knows how to ask simple but dangerous questions, and this encounter slowly changes his view of the order he has always accepted.
Bradbury builds the novel around the simple and frightening image of a burning book, behind which stands a larger question about what happens to a person who has given up reading and the preservation of memory. Independent thought in this world seems too inconvenient. The reader sees a society absorbed in entertainment and rapid signals, with almost no living conversation left. People lose the habit of reading difficult books because a book demands inner effort. In this sense, Bradbury’s novel remains disturbingly modern. It reminds us that culture can be destroyed by fire, but it is even easier to do so by indifference. Ray Bradbury was a famous American writer who changed the idea of science fiction. His prose made the genre more lyrical and more human. Fahrenheit 451 became one of the major twentieth-century novels about freedom of thought. |
| Year | 2019 |
| Publisher | JeKSMO |
| Pages | 320 |
| Cover | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 978-5-699-93026-5 |