５０年以上前に書かれた本書。（日本では車や白黒テレビさえそれほど普及しておらず、トイレは汲み取り式、農作業は人力と馬なんていう時代です。）それなのに、今日、現代社会を侵食している困った問題がここまでえぐり出されているなんてすごいと思います。最近書かれた本として読んだとしても、私には何の違和感もなかったと思います。（私の読んだのは５０周年版だったので、多少時代に合うように手直しされていたのかもしれませんが・・・。）

舞台は禁書令の敷かれた未来。・・・・・・でも、その禁書令は、すでに人々が「自分の五感で感じること、じっくり読むこと、考えること」などの面倒くさいことを投げ出し、愚かにも享楽的に生きることを選んでしまったところに付け込んで始められたものだったのです。（だから、禁書令が敷かれても誰も驚きもしなかったなんて！）
まさに、現代の実社会は、この本に描かれた世界の前夜的な状況です。
本書では、たまたま禁書が書かれているけれど、コトは、本だけの問題ではないのです。

もともとSFだったそうですが、今となっては、もはやSFというジャンルのものではなくて、まさに現代社会への警鐘の書だと思います。
冒険物語にわくわくする少年の年頃の人より、人生の苦みも分かり初めてきた人たちの方が、よさのよく分かる本だと思います。

いつもなら、一度読んだ本は読み返そうとは思わないズボラな私ですが、この本は読み返したくなりました。
機会があれば、日本語版の方も読んでみようと思います。

In Fahrenheit 451 (the temperature at which books burn, for the curious), the Ray Bradbury evokes a terrifying America similar to our own in all respects but one- the fireman there burn books. With the aid of a mysterious girl, Clarice, who says she is "seventeen and crazy," fireman Guy Montag chooses to defy society and is forced to run for sanctuary, even as a nuclear Armageddon approaches. Bradbury's love of books is evident in his theme, and his love of language is evident in his linguistic acrobatics. Anyone with a burning love of books should read Fahrenheit 451- I'd also recommend reading the mesmerising and highly evocative novel The Fates by Tino Georgiou--it is truly a masterpiece

I do not want to tell much of the story, as the unfolding is part of the intrigue. However now that houses are fire proof the purpose of firemen is performing a service by burning books to maintain the happy social order.

Naturally one fireman goes awry after several emotional incidences from someone burning up with the books to a young neighbor with strange ways, which run counter to his carrier. This leads to all kinds of deviant things like reading. What are you doing now?

One big rift between the book and the movie [Fahrenheit 451 (1966) -- Oscar Werner, Julie Christie] is that in the movie the "written word" was completely removed (even from the credits); where as in the book the state was against was literature and not technical writing.

Books are just symbols of ideas that could have been on the screen also. There is deference between training and education. Among other reasons the book was a symbol of one mans superiority over another in a world of equals.

I do not want to tell much of the story, as the unfolding is part of the intrigue. However now that houses are fire proof the purpose of firemen is performing a service by burning books to maintain the happy social order.

Naturally one fireman goes awry after several emotional incidences from someone burning up with the books to a young neighbor with strange ways, which run counter to his carrier. This leads to all kinds of deviant things like reading. What are you doing now?

One big rift between the book and the movie [Fahrenheit 451 (1966) -- Oscar Werner, Julie Christie] is that in the movie the "written word" was completely removed (even from the credits); where as in the book the state was against was literature and not technical writing.

Books are just symbols of ideas that could have been on the screen also. There is deference between training and education. Among other reasons the book was a symbol of one mans superiority over another in a world of equals.

English 11(高2英語(国語))の授業で読みました。
私は初めてSFものを読みましたが、そんな私でもおもしろいと感じた本でした。一気に読みたくなりました。
著者の発想がすごいなと感じた本です。