Fahrenheit 451 is one of the works of the most famous science fiction in the world, and rightly so. 451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which a book caught fire. In a future society, the government decided to prohibit reading and owning books is forbidden on pain of death. Firefighters are not there to put out fires, but to burn the last books of the last recalcitrant. The book develops the awareness of a member of the fire brigade, Montag, his encounter with a young girl humanist, still capable of thought and emotions, in a world that has virtually eliminated them, its progressive revolt, its flight and hopes of salvation. The book was remarkably adapted to film by Truffaut in 1966 and more recently in comics. The death in 2012 Bradbury was talk of the work is more relevant than ever.
This novel is Bradbury think about many things: the importance of reading and of course freedom of thought but also the indifference that can be installed between people, the appalling effects of television, relationship between reality and fiction. Of course, when the paper book regresses in favor of the Internet and where the daily consumption of television goes far beyond the playing time, one naturally wonders whether a form of burning much more insidious and dangerous than that envisaged by Bradbury has not started.
