Fahrenheit 451 is one of SF novels the best known by a broad public, excluding specialized amateurs.

When I read this text, I always wonder why some texts SF, spill over a wider readership and not others?
Indeed the dystopian subgenre of science fiction is full of texts quite live up to those of Bradbury or even those dOrwell, well ..., mystery and gumdrops ...

In a relatively distant future but not too much play is prohibited and the world is standardized so that thought is calibrated, oriented, standardized ....
The futuristic character of the text is clear (with decorum in this direction) and can dailleurs invite the reader to reflect on the attributes that make this effective and functional futuristic universe, moving walkways, escalators etc ... because they have an outdated character, although that they are very efficient from the standpoint of their narrative efficiency.

In this universe firefighters not néteignent fires, rather, they serve sen to perform spectacular punitive burnings and exemplary.
A firefighter, will save a book and reading it, it will precipitate a credible inner journey and eloquent, and this leads him to dissent and to flee ...

The story is dramatized and rhythmic, this "flames" and that if the run jose say.
It is a reflection on totalitarianism and the single thought which is argued and comely.
This is probably a story that has the color and aroma, a taste ...

The texts of the time because of a particular historical context deal of totalitarianism and censorship.
They remain relevant today obviously, although nowadays develops a dynamic of censorship more or less involuntary, that revolves around the informaTION proliferation and mobilizes the proliferation of hiding information and that of lanecdotique, with the proliferation factual informaTION disconnected bottom and along short thematic examinations, de facto censorship, which also arise from the law of the market, with sellers subjects (thematic oriented treatments also more or less sell) or more visible issues although anecdotal, treatment at the expense of a more "clinical" and more to do with the structural dynamics of the subjects.