Timeless masterpiece

How can you recognize a masterpiece? Probably when each page turned, one can not help but whine convulsively "Damn this is good! Damn this is brilliant! Damn this is TRUE! "And that ecstatic feeling is renewed every time, regardless of the number of proofreading. However, he did not look the Doeuvre Chief Ray Bradbury: two hundred pages to break all, a fun kitsch coverage (strong in my old edition anyway), a simple, no frills yet clear in a few dozen pages scribouillées in just a week if lon author believes Bradbury manages to lead one of the most relevant thoughts ever written on literature, culture in general, memory, tamed the opposition between happiness and freedom, manipulation of the masses into a dictatorship as in nimporte what type of diet So many fascinating and timeless themes treated more dintelligence and virtuosity as each other: not a line that is aged! Not a word that still sounds just as clear and quun his bell, even after last sixty years!

The story is arch-known, but summarize the all the same: we are in an indefinite future where reading is considered an anti-civic behavior (to linstars of many others share "decadent" like walking on foot, traveling at least 110 kilometers by the hour or chat on a terrace). Refractory see themselves lasile sent to anyone doubting the government necessarily being insane and their libraries burned by the fire brigade 451 specialized in the destruction of subversive literature. Guy Montag belongs to this brigade, thirty-five, no cloud na tarnished his neat little happiness nor his conscience well polished defender of society.

Completion day he meets Clarisse, a strange young girl who likes to walk alone at night, daydreaming on benches, picking up dead leaves, contemplating the moon The girl will awaken in him a subtle and disturbing impulses doubt insidious: Montag is he really happy? And his wife Mildred, she ballast? And his friends? His colleagues? The whole society? The discomfort sinstalle lined dune nagging curiosity about something the incendiary fireman can not really define, and one day, when dune raid like hundreds that he led before, Montag opens a book

The rest I leave you the pleasure to discover it! Be aware, however, that "Fahrenheit 451" is a novel that will leave nobody indifferent and you breathe into the belly that dull anguish: nothing is given, nothing is gained. Treasures culture created by humanity can be dissipated in a few years, by violence, be and this is where the most pernicious by lapathie and indifference of the masses. Faced with this decline still threatening, "Fahrenheit 451" turns out to be a sacred barrier, a rallying cry that continues to resound in our hearts and probably still resonate in the coming decades which is also lapanage of masterpieces.