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> This guy wrote Fahrenheit 451 According to him, that novel was not about censorship: > Now, Bradbury has decided to make news about the writing of his icono
by cbd1984 11y ago
> This guy wrote Fahrenheit 451
According to him, that novel was not about censorship:
> Now, Bradbury has decided to make news about the writing of his iconographic work and what he really meant. Fahrenheit 451 is not, he says firmly, a story about government censorship. Nor was it a response to Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose investigations had already instilled fear and stifled the creativity of thousands.
> This, despite the fact that reviews, critiques and essays over the decades say that is precisely what it is all about. Even Bradbury’s authorized biographer, Sam Weller, in The Bradbury Chronicles, refers to Fahrenheit 451 as a book about censorship.
> Bradbury, a man living in the creative and industrial center of reality TV and one-hour dramas, says it is, in fact, a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature.
http://www.laweekly.com/news/ray-bradbury-fahrenheit-451-misinterpreted-2149125 http://www.laweekly.com/news/ray-bradbury-fahrenheit-451-mis...
So your point is somewhat misguided.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoIts fair to say "What does this book mean to you?" I'd be confident that 99% of people asked would say "Censorship". So its fair to use it for a example of that.
- cbd1984 11y agoI fully agee. My point is that it wasn't what the book meant to him.