Occasionally, Montag encounters a resistor who prefers to die in the conflagration rather than give in.
(Although probably even Bradbury had a hard time anticipating the sense of entitlement that leads to such irresponsible behavior.)īecause all this is happening without authorities dumping books in bonfires, Bradbury’s novel, “Fahrenheit 451,” written in 1953, may be easy to dismiss as a bit cranky, with its dystopian landscape scorched by pyroinically-enforced censorship.īut it’s still a good time to read this novel, or – and yes, there is a bit of irony in this – a new graphic novel version.īetter still, it’s a graphic novel version illuminating a novel that has not ceased to speak quietly in its power and beauty of language, even as the devices Brabdury speculated come into every day use.Īrtist and illustrator Tim Hamilton elegantly conveys the story of Montag, a firefighter whose job description consists mainly of confiscating books and other illicit reading materials and incinerating them. We can connect instantaneously – or bump obliviously into each other while texting in the supermarket line, or cause accidents by texting or calling while driving a car or even a subway. It’s a world in which we can each other on cell phones - or “tuning” each other out, as it were, with our ears stuffed with all manner of music playing devices. Even those particularly familiar with this author are acting out all the permutations of his visions. We’re basically living in Ray Bradbury’s imagined world now. Hill And Wang/Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. "Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, The Authorized Adaptation," by Tim Hamilton.
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