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內容簡介 華氏451度──紙張的燃點燒掉一本書的方法不止一種，而這個世界上到處都有拿著點燃火柴的人《華氏451度》是二十世紀的文學傑作，背景設在黯淡而貧乏的反烏托邦世界，以一個壓制自由的未來社會、禁止人們擁有與閱讀書籍的故事，深刻描寫出現代人在不自覺中，反受科技和娛樂禁錮的存在狀態。「書本變薄，然後是濃縮、消化過的版本，最後成了摘要，摘要的摘要的摘要，二句話……」故事中的世界，人們只談論一些無意義的事，快樂是最高指標，思考會帶來不必要的煩惱，而書則是擾亂平靜的怪獸。蒙塔格是一名打火員，在他的世界裡，電視主宰著一切，文學則瀕臨滅絕；打火員的工作成了放火而非滅火。他的工作就是要摧毀非法的產品，也就是印刷書籍，以及藏匿這些書籍的房子。蒙塔格從來不去質疑自己的行為造成了什麼樣的破壞和損失，每天只是回到他無趣的生活和他的妻子蜜卓身邊，而她的妻子整天只會陪著她的電視「家人」。但這時，他遇見了古怪的年輕鄰居克萊莉絲，她讓他知道原來過去的世界裡，人們不必生活在恐懼中；在現今的世界裡，還是有人可以透過書本裡的思想來看待一切，不必仰賴電視中無腦的談話。就在克萊莉絲突然消失之際，蒙塔格開始質疑自己所知道的一切；一次出勤行動中，寧可與書俱焚的老婦人更讓他在心中深植這個想法──書本裡肯定有什麼。他開始在家裡藏書，而當他的偷竊行為被發現時，這個打火員得開始亡命天涯……The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. `Another indispensable classic' The Times `'Ray Bradbury's gift for storytelling reshaped our culture and expanded our world' Barack Obama Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The classic dystopian novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands alongside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which, decades on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Ray Bradbury One of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers of all time, Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, in 1920. He moved with his family to Los Angeles in 1934. Since his first story appeared in Weird Tales when he was twenty years old, he published some 500 short stories, novels, plays, scripts and poems. Among his many famous works are Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man and The Martian Chronicles. Ray Bradbury died in 2012 at the age of 91.

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