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Dienstag, 2. Januar 2018

Savage and Shockingly Prophetic: On Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

“The most widely known contemporary author of science fiction offers here, in his longest sustained work, a savage and shockingly prophetic view of one possible future way of life. It is a world in which the firemen are all important, for they are no longer utilized to put out fires, but to start them, for theirs is a world in which books and independent thinking are forbidden and the possession of books is punished by the burning of books, house, and owner. It is a world which, like that of Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here, is far more likely to come into being than the various world of many other imaginative writers. ... [mehr] http://lithub.com/savage-and-shockingly-prophetic-on-ray-bradburys-fahrenheit-451/ 

August Derleth, The Chicago Tribune, October 25, 1953

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