An edition of Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

Fahrenheit 451

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An edition of Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

Fahrenheit 451

  • 4.0 (380 ratings) ·
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Yazılmış en iyi bilimkurgu romanı. İlk okuduğumda, yarattığı dünyayla kâbuslar görmeme sebep olmuştu. -Margaret Atwood
Öyle bir eser ki, hakkında ne söylesem eksik kalır. -Neil Gaiman
Hugo En İyi Roman Ödülü
Prometheus Şeref Kürsüsü Ödülü
Ray Bradbury sadece bilimkurgunun değil fantastik edebiyatın ve korkunun da yirminci yüzyıldaki ustalarından biri. Bilimkurgunun iyi edebiyat da olabileceğini kanıtlayan belki de ilk yazar. Yayımlandığı anda klasikleşen, distopya edebiyatının dört temel kitabından biri olan Fahrenheit 451 ise bir yirminci yüzyıl başyapıtı.
Guy Montag bir itfaiyeciydi. Televizyonun hüküm sürdüğü bu dünyada kitaplar ise yok olmak üzereydi zira itfaiyeciler yangın söndürmek yerine ortalığı ateşe veriyordu. Montag'ın işi ise yasadışı olanların en tehlikelisini yakmaktı: Kitapları.
Montag yaptığı işi tek bir gün dahi sorgulamamıştı ve tüm gününü televizyonla kaplı odalarda geçiren eşi Mildred'la beraber yaşıyordu. Ancak yeni komşusu Clarisse'le tanışmasıyla tüm hayatı değişti. Kitapların değerini kavramaya başlayan Montag artık tüm bildiklerini sorgulayacaktı.
İnsanların uğruna canlarını feda etmeyi göze aldığı bu kitapların içinde ne vardı? Gerçeklerin farkına vardıktan sonra bu karanlık toplumda artık yaşanabilir miydi?
Fahrenheit 451, yeryüzünde tek bir kitap kalacak olsa, o kitap olmaya aday.
Mutlu olmamız için gerekli her şeye sahibiz, ama mutlu değiliz. Bir şey eksik. Etrafa bakındım. Ortadan kaybolduğunu kesinlikle bildiğim tek şey, on-on iki yıldır yaktığım kitaplardı.

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Language
Turkish
Pages
208

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
2018, İthaki Yayınları
Paperback in Turkish
Cover of: Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
2013-06, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Trade Paperback in English - Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition (12); 60th Anniversary Edition
Cover of: 华氏451
华氏451
2005, Zhong qing chu ban she
paperback in Chinese
Cover of: Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
2003, Simon & Schuster
hardcover in English
Cover of: Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
1996-08, Del Rey / Random House
paperback in English - 1st trade ed. (20)
Cover of: Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
/1993, Del Rey / Ballantine Books
mass market paperback in English - First edition, second printing (25)
Cover of: Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
/1993, FollettBound
library binding in English - 1991 Second printing (45)
Cover of: Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
1991, Del Rey / Ballantine Books
mass market paperback in English - First edition, second printing
Cover of: Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
1986, Macmillan of Canada
paperback in English
Cover of: Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
1984-06, Del Rey / Ballantine Books
mass market paperback in English - Sixty-first printing
Cover of: Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
1960, Corgi Books
Paperback in English - Corgi edition reprint

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Edition Notes

Translation Of
Fahrenheit 451
Translated From
English

Contributors

Translator
Dost Körpe

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
208
Dimensions
21 x 13.5 x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27260839M
ISBN 10
6053757818
ISBN 13
9786053757818

Work Description

Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. Often regarded as one of his best works, the novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. The book's tagline explains the title as "'the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns": the autoignition temperature of paper. The lead character, Guy Montag, is a fireman who becomes disillusioned with his role of censoring literature and destroying knowledge, eventually quitting his job and committing himself to the preservation of literary and cultural writings.

The novel has been the subject of interpretations focusing on the historical role of book burning in suppressing dissenting ideas for change. In a 1956 radio interview, Bradbury said that he wrote Fahrenheit 451 because of his concerns at the time (during the McCarthy era) about the threat of book burning in the United States. In later years, he described the book as a commentary on how mass media reduces interest in reading literature.

In 1954, Fahrenheit 451 won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal. It later won the Prometheus "Hall of Fame" Award in 1984 and a "Retro" Hugo Award, one of a limited number of Best Novel Retro Hugos ever given, in 2004. Bradbury was honored with a Spoken Word Grammy nomination for his 1976 audiobook version.



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