451 ’according to Fahrenheit. Bradbury R.

451 ° according to Fahrenheit - the temperature at which paper is ignited and burns. The philosophical anti -utopia Bradbury draws a hopeless picture of the development of a post -industrial society: this is the world of the future, in which all written publications are ruthlessly destroyed by a special detachment of firefighters, and the storage of books is persecuted according to the law, interactive television successfully serves universal wrapping, punitive psychiatry decisively deal with rare dissessing ones, but to hunting. The electric dog is facing incorrigible dissidents...

The novel, which brought world fame to its creator.

Bradbury’s statement in 2007 was the “451 ° according to Fahrenheit” incorrectly. This book is not about government censorship, this is a story about what

how television destroys interest in reading books.

In the early 1950s, most Americans did not see the TV, but Bradbury predicted The onset of a new era of freedom, prosperity and entertainment, when

the desire to be happy, multiplied by political correctness will lead to a ban on books.

“The TV tells you what to think about and injects this You in the head. He is always and necessarily right. "