Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451--the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns ...

mass market paperback, 179 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 1988 by Del Rey / Ballantine Books.

ISBN:
978-0-345-34296-6
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Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires...

The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning...along with the houses in which they were hidden.

Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor 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 he 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

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Fahrenheit 451

Incroyable qu’un roman écrit il y a plus de 70 ans puisse à ce point résonner avec l'actualité de 2025. Ray Bradbury expose une société totalitaire sans tyran où, sous prétexte d’apaiser les âmes et de satisfaire la multitude des minorités – professions, religions, associations, etc. – les romans sont brûlés, les intellectuels, au mieux, exilés. Le pompier incendiaire Montag rencontre une jeune femme qui instillera le doute dans son esprit, lui permettant de s'affranchir, d’ouvrir les yeux. Les écrans publicitaires, les caméras, les voisins délateurs, les robots chasseurs de têtes : nous sommes projetés dans une dystopie effrayante et visionnaire avec, qui plus est, dans cette traduction de Jacques Chambon et Henri Robillot, une véritable qualité littéraire.

Un style surprenant

J'ai été happée par la traduction "actualisée" de ce livre (1995, par Jacques Chambon). Le propos sur la place du livre dans une société hyper-(dé)connectée m'a fait beaucoup réfléchir et m'a motivée dans mon désir de prendre soin des livres, de les partager coûte que coûte, et d'en discuter absolument avec d'autres personnes. Un classique que je ne regrette pas d'avoir enfin pris le temps de lire (il est assez court).

Old book, relevant as ever.

A dystopian world where critical and individual thinking or human interaction is suppressed by continuous exposure to TV, speed and drugs.

Substitute TV with Social Media and you've got your actuality.

Difficult read for me as a non-native speaker but nonetheless a must-read.

distopia diferente.

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.

Fantastic

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

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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.

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Subjects

  • Science fiction.
  • Book burning -- Fiction.