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More info 451 ° Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper ignites and burns. Bradbury’s philosophical dystopia paints a gloomy picture of the development of a post-industrial society: this is the world of the future, in which all written publications are mercilessly destroyed by a special squad of firefighters, and book storage is prosecuted by law, interactive television successfully serves universal fooling, punitive psychiatry decisively deals with rare dissidents, and after incorrigible dissidents comes an electric dog … A novel that brought worldwide fame to its creator. Sensational was Bradbury’s 2007 statement that «Fahrenheit 451» was misunderstood. This book is not about government censorship, this is the story of how television is destroying the interest in reading books. In the early 1950s, most Americans never saw television, but Bradbury predicted a new era of freedom, prosperity and entertainment, when the desire to be happy, coupled with political correctness, would lead to the banning of books. “The TV tells you what to think about and hammers it into your head. He is always and necessarily right. «
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