Fahrenheit 451

6 hrs. 37 min.

Language Russian

Author Ray Bradbury

Narrator Vadim Maksimov

Description

This is an amazing book—a prediction, a book—a warning. What Ray Bradbury wrote in 1953 is becoming more and more relevant day by day. Virtual reality that drains all that is human from a person is depicted terribly and truthfully. Human communication is replaced by television. All kinds of devices make life easier by giving, in return, inactivity and a break from reality. And the most dangerous in this once-fictional—and by now familiar to us—reality are books. It is books that make a person think about life, about themselves, about what is happening around them. But it’s harder to control thinking people, and do they even want the truth themselves? To keep nothing from disturbing the “cloudless” program existence, books need to be banned. Even better—to burn them so that not a trace remains. That is exactly the direction the novel’s plot develops in.

The main hero, Montag, is a person who has awakened from the mechanical routine of everyday life and realized that behind modern technology, loud achievements, and comfort lies emptiness that leads to the destruction of the living human soul…