Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 er en dystopisk roman af den amerikanske forfatter Ray Bradbury fra 1953. Novellen præsenterer et fremtidigt amerikansk samfund, hvor bøger er ulovlige og "brandmænd" brænder alle fundne bøger. Bogens tagline forklarer titlen som "temperaturen hvorved papir antændes og brænder": 451 grader Fahrenheit (ca. 233 grader Celsius). Hovedpersonen, Guy Montag, er en brandmand, der kommer i tvivl om sin censurerende rolle som brandmand og ødelæggelsen af viden.

Romanen har været genstand for fortolkninger med fokus på bogafbrændingers historiske rolle i undertrykkelsen af modstridende idéer for at opnå forandring. I et radiointerview fra 1956^[1] sagde Bradbury, at han skrev Fahrenheit 451 på grund af sin bekymring på daværende tidspunkt (under Mccarthyismen) om bogafbrændinger i USA. Senere har han beskrevet bogen som en kommentar til hvordan massemedier reducerer interessen for at læse litteratur.^[2]

Ray Bradbury har været med til at tilpasse romanen til andre formater, som et teaterstykke i 1979 og et computerspil i 1984, og udgav i 2011 ved forlaget HarperCollins en samling noveller med titlen A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories.^[3] Romanen er blevet filmatiseret i 1966 af François Truffaut og af Ramin Bahrani for HBO i 2018.

Referencer

^ "Ticket to the Moon (tribute to SciFi)" (mp3). Biography in Sound. Narrated by Norman Rose. NBC Radio News. December 4, 1956. 27:10–27:30. Retrieved February 2, 2017. I wrote this book at a time when I was worried about the way things were going in this country four years ago. Too many people were afraid of their shadows; there was a threat of book burning. Many of the books were being taken off the shelves at that time.
^ Johnston, Amy E. Boyle (May 30, 2007). "Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted". LA Weekly website. Retrieved July 9, 2019. Bradbury still has a lot to say, especially about how people do not understand his most famous literary work, Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953 ... Bradbury, a man living in the creative and industrial center of reality TV and one-hour dramas, says it is, in fact, a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature.
^ Genzlinger, Neil (March 25, 2006). "Godlight Theater's 'Fahrenheit 451' Offers Hot Ideas for the Information Age". The New York Times. Retrieved August 10, 2013.

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[1] "Ticket to the Moon (tribute to SciFi)" (mp3). Biography in Sound. Narrated by Norman Rose. NBC Radio News. December 4, 1956. 27:10–27:30. Retrieved February 2, 2017. I wrote this book at a time when I was worried about the way things were going in this country four years ago. Too many people were afraid of their shadows; there was a threat of book burning. Many of the books were being taken off the shelves at that time.

[2] Johnston, Amy E. Boyle (May 30, 2007). "Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted". LA Weekly website. Retrieved July 9, 2019. Bradbury still has a lot to say, especially about how people do not understand his most famous literary work, Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953 ... Bradbury, a man living in the creative and industrial center of reality TV and one-hour dramas, says it is, in fact, a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature.

[3] Genzlinger, Neil (March 25, 2006). "Godlight Theater's 'Fahrenheit 451' Offers Hot Ideas for the Information Age". The New York Times. Retrieved August 10, 2013.

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