Fahrenheit 451 (Spanish Edition)

La historia de un sombrio y aterrador futuro
 
Guy Montag pertenece a una extrana brigada de bomberos. Su mision, paradojicamente, no es la de sofocar incendios sino la de provocarlos para quemar libros. Ha sido bombero durante mas de 10 anos, y siempre le gusto su trabajo. Nunca cuestiono nada -ni la emocion de las salidas a medianoche ni el placer de ver las hojas arder- hasta que conocio a una nina de diecisiete anos que le mostro un pasado en el que la gente no tenia miedo y a un profesor que le hablo de un futuro en el que la gente podria ser libre. Y al fin Montag comprendio lo que tenia que hacer.
 
Fahrenheit 451, la novela mas celebre del maestro de la ciencia ficcion, nos presenta un futuro perturbador: un mundo en el que los libros y la lectura estan prohibidos. Porque leer obliga a pensar, y en ese mundo esta prohibido pensar. Porque leer impide ser ingenuamente feliz, y en ese mundo hay que ser feliz a la fuerza.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.

Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.

When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.