RAY BRADBURY
La clásica distopía sobre los peligros del populismo y el conformismo, en una nueva traducción que capta toda la fuerza del original.
En un futuro sombrío y turbador, Guy Montag forma parte de una extraña brigada de bomberos cuya misión no es sofocar incendios, sino producirlos para quemar libros. Y es que en su mundo está prohibido leer, porque lo que se quiere suprimir es la capacidad de pensar. Una vez que Montag lo comprenda, alertado por una organización secreta dedicada a memorizar volúmenes enteros, sabrá que ha llegado el momento de elegir entre la obediencia y la rebeldía. En esta nueva traducción, que captura mejor que nunca toda la fuerza del original, la clásica distopía de Ray Bradbury sigue alertándonos sobre las peores facetas del conformismo moderno.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.
