Original title: Fahrenheit 451
Author: Ray Bradbury
Editorial: DeBolsillo
176 pages
ISBN: 9788497930055
1 st Edition in this editorial: 2003
The story of a dark and horrific future. Montag, the protagonist, is in a strange fire brigade ...
Fahrenheit 451 offers the story of a dark and horrific future. Montag, the protagonist, is in a strange fire brigade whose mission, ironically, is not to put out fires but to burn books to provoke. Because the country is strictly forbidden to read Montag. Because reading requires thinking, and the country is forbidden to think Montag. Because it is read back from being naively happy, and the country Montag have to be happy in the force ... The most famous novel by Ray Bradbury, a master of science fiction.
Bradbury Talking equivalent today to talk about a model of the current fiction. Besides this work which dates in its first edition in 1953, others have earned a good reputation within the genre as The Martian Chronicles ( 1950) or The Illustrated Man (1951). The author of Illinois, born in 1920, this novel offers a poignant prose in the future, imagined more than half a century, which is overwhelming. To all those who love literature and devoured many books as you can, imagine a society like that shows us Fahrenheit 451 is indeed frightening. A society where the possession of books is severely punished, a planet where the best place we can occupy these is in incinerators ( ashes of ashes, they say in some part of the work), some people constantly at war and for to a forced sale. Are all elements that make this short novel, with Bradbury's prose, an attractive cocktail.
The story is centered on the awakening of Montag, a fireman who is engaged to burn the books and the hopes of those who love. Guy Montag will, through circumstantial elements that get in his way, he will recover consciousness about the world we live and try to escape the clutches of the prevailing society.
is incredible the skill with which the author develops the characters and their personalities in history. The degradation of some and the exaltation of others, their fears, their thoughts, their inconsistencies ... everything bears witness to the society that seeks to teach and does so in a way that scares them. Nor does it neglect the visionary aspect of Bradbury, as a technology shows us that in his time was only dream and today it is possible and real: the walls that make for great TV and that show a continuous contact with other people in the distance, are a good example.
I have also noted that the background of the book leaves a bitter aftertaste, but hopeful. Bitter because hatred and fear that society has represented books is something that could apply to some strata of society today, or perhaps some individuals. Unfortunately, some reactions of this "fiction" well you can see or live in our flesh. Surely this is a novel critical of the system, with its people and their patterns of action face of adversity, against what is forbidden. Bradbury reading can be an exasperating experience but no doubt it's worth, a lot. A highly recommended reading. By the way, for those who desconozcáis, the novel opens its pages with a brief explanation of why it is called so is that Fahrenheit 451 refers to the temperature at which the role of inflammation and burning books.
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