Paperback, 304 pages
German language
Published Oct. 30, 2010 by Wilhelm Heyne Verlag.
451 Grad Fahrenheit oder 232 Grad Celsius – die Temperatur, bei der Papier verbrennt. Guy Montag ist Feuerwehrmann. Es ist seine Aufgabe, Bücher zu beschlagnahmen und zu verbrennen. Denn Bücher sind die Quelle allen Unglücks ... Mit "Fahrenheit 451" hat Ray Bradbury Literaturgeschichte geschrieben – neben Orwells "1984" und Huxleys "Schöne neue Welt" gibt es nichts Vergleichbares.
source: www.randomhouse.de/Paperback/Fahrenheit-451/Ray-Bradbury/Heyne/e338760.rhd#info
451 Grad Fahrenheit oder 232 Grad Celsius – die Temperatur, bei der Papier verbrennt. Guy Montag ist Feuerwehrmann. Es ist seine Aufgabe, Bücher zu beschlagnahmen und zu verbrennen. Denn Bücher sind die Quelle allen Unglücks ... Mit "Fahrenheit 451" hat Ray Bradbury Literaturgeschichte geschrieben – neben Orwells "1984" und Huxleys "Schöne neue Welt" gibt es nichts Vergleichbares.
source: www.randomhouse.de/Paperback/Fahrenheit-451/Ray-Bradbury/Heyne/e338760.rhd#info
It's like it was written today. Spoiler: Protect books at all costs.
It's like it was written today. Spoiler: Protect books at all costs.
It's like it was written today. Spoiler: Protect books at all costs.
It's like it was written today. Spoiler: Protect books at all costs.
As you're reading this book, it's difficult to remember that it was written in 1951. The technological "predictions" are interesting (bluetooth headphones, reality TV). But I think the most interesting portions are the discussions of the nature of books and media. Toward the end, we get a discussion of people as books (using their innate photographic memories to read/scan books that can later be retrieved from them), but this quotation from Faber around the middle of the book is probably my favorite moment...the texture of books, a texture that can be examined closely, and the rewards of that process of examination.
"Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me, it means texture. This book as pores. It has features. This book can go under the microscope. You'd find life under the glass, …
As you're reading this book, it's difficult to remember that it was written in 1951. The technological "predictions" are interesting (bluetooth headphones, reality TV). But I think the most interesting portions are the discussions of the nature of books and media. Toward the end, we get a discussion of people as books (using their innate photographic memories to read/scan books that can later be retrieved from them), but this quotation from Faber around the middle of the book is probably my favorite moment...the texture of books, a texture that can be examined closely, and the rewards of that process of examination.
"Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me, it means texture. This book as pores. It has features. This book can go under the microscope. You'd find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion. The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more 'literary' you are. That's my definition, anyway. Telling detail. Fresh detail." (79)
