Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) — American writer, classic of science fiction and master of short prose. He became famous for the collection of stories "The Martian Chronicles," the parable novel "Fahrenheit 451," and his subtle, poetic style in which science fiction intertwines with nostalgia, fears and dreams. Bradbury wrote about the future to understand the present and believed in the power of imagination as the main weapon against insensitivity and spiritual blindness. Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which paper ignites and burns. Bradbury's philosophical dystopia paints 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 universal dumbing down, punitive psychiatry decisively deals with rare dissidents, and a robotic dog goes hunting for incorrigible dissenters…