Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) — American writer, classic of science fiction and master of short prose. He became famous for his collection of stories "The Martian Chronicles", the allegorical novel "Fahrenheit 451" and the delicate, poetic style in which fiction intertwines with nostalgia, fears, and dreams. Bradbury wrote about the future to understand the present, and he believed in the power of imagination as the main weapon against insensitivity and spiritual blindness. 451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper ignites and burns. Bradbury's philosophical dystopia depicts a bleak picture of the development of a post-industrial society: it is a world of the future where all written publications are ruthlessly destroyed by a special squad of firefighters, and the storage of books is prosecuted by law, interactive television successfully serves the general dumbing down, punitive psychiatry resolutely deals with rare dissidents, and the electric dog goes hunting for irredeemable dissidents…