Guy Montag es bombero. En su mundo, donde las reglas de televisión y la literatura están al borde de la extinción, los bomberos inician incendios en lugar de apagarlos. Su trabajo es destruir los productos más ilegales, el libro impreso, junto con las casas en las que están escondidos. Montag nunca cuestiona la destrucción y la ruina que producen sus acciones, volviendo cada día a su vida y esposa, Mildred, que pasa todo el día con su "familia" televisiva. Pero luego conoce a un excéntrico joven vecino, Clarisse, quien le presenta un pasado donde la gente no vivía con miedo y un presente donde uno ve el mundo a través de las ideas en los libros en lugar de la charla sin sentido de la televisión. Cuando Mildred intenta suicidarse y Clarisse desaparece repentinamente, Montag comienza a cuestionar todo lo que ha conocido.
IDIOMA ORIGINAL
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.
Autor | RAY BRADBURY |
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Editorial | SIMON & SCHUSTER |
Idioma | Inglés |