Fahrenheit 451

240 pages

English language

Published Aug. 6, 2013

ISBN:
978-0-00-749156-8
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4 stars (5 reviews)

The terrifyingly prophetic novel of a post-literate future.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books.

The classic dystopian novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands alongside Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization’s enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity.

Bradbury’s powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which, decades on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.

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5 stars

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).