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Fahrenheit 451
Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.
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What a sad world that is depicted in this novel where people burn books and the value of a human life is very little
Bradbury has always been one of my favorite authors, although I haven't read this before until now. Surprisingly, such a short book took me such a long time to finish, and I believe it was mainly because of the wording and the intelligence needed to follow along.
È un libro che tocca nel profondo, letto, divorato in un giorno. Ho sentito un senso di vuoto quando l’ho chiuso, avendolo terminato. Ho sentito la mancanza di Montag, il protagonista, e i suoi tormenti, le sue difficoltà, È riuscito a avere la sua rivincita sulla sua vita inizialmente vissuta da accecato, da stolto, per poi, grazie alla ragazza incontrata sotto la pioggia, è riuscito ad aprire gli occhi, a RENDERSI CONTO. Che il suo lavoro era il peggiore mai esistito, inceneritore di preziosi ricordi e memorie, unica vera traccia di una memorabile umanità, attraverso la quale valeva la pena essere ricordata. Non dobbiamo mai mai scordare, mai permettere ad un mondo simile di imbambolarci, dobbiamo essere accorti e vigili di ciò che succede intorno a noi, e sapere. AVERE LA CONOSCENZA, avere la più bella cosa esistente nella terra, l’istruzione; dobbiamo puntare ad essere una pedina difficile da essere morta, non il pedone della scacchiera.
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