It is the only pure science fiction novel Ray Bradbury ever wrote.But at the time I wanted to do some sort of story where I could comment on what would happen to a country if we let ourselves go too far in this direction, where all thinking stops, and the dragon swallows his tail, and we sort of vanish into a limbo and we destroy ourselves by this sort of action.”Īnd in a 2007 interview at the San Diego Comic Con, he talks about where he was and the special significance it held for him when he wrote Fahrenheit 451. Things are going back in a very healthy direction. And of course, things have changed a lot in four years. Many of the books were being taken off the shelves at that time. Too many people were afraid of their shadows there was a threat of book burning. “I wrote this book at a time when I was worried about the way things were going in this country four years ago. In a 1956 interview, Bradbury reminisced about the writing of the novel: And it was only fitting that Bradbury wrote it in a library─the basement of UCLA’s Powell Library─on a typewriter that he rented for ten cents per half hour. The original title for the novel wasn’t Fahrenheit 451 but rather The Fireman. As it were, that experience resulted in the story “The Pedestrian.” Bradbury would later turn the main character of “The Pedestrian” into Guy Montag, the protagonist of Fahrenheit.
The policemen got out of the car and one of them asked, “What are you doing?” to which Bradbury replied, “Putting one foot in front of the other.” That turned out to be the wrong thing to say as the policeman didn’t appreciate the joke. When Bradbury was 30, he was walking down the street with a friend when a police car pulled up. So it was only natural that I sat down and wrote Fahrenheit 451. The reason why I wrote Fahrenheit is that I am a library person and I am in danger of someday writing something that people might not like and they might burn. I was 15 when that happened, I was thoroughly in love with libraries and he was burning me when he did that…. “When I heard about Hitler burning the books in the streets of Berlin, it bothered me terribly. As he never attended college, he considered libraries to be his “university.” In his own words: Bradbury frequented libraries starting at the age of eight.
Later he heard about book burnings occurring in Germany, Russia and China, and the story of the great libraries of Alexandria being destroyed by flames some 2,000 years ago.
It is named for the fact that at 451° paper catches fire and burns.īradbury grew up in Waukegan, Illinois, and hung around the fire station as a kid along with his dad. Fahrenheit 451 presents a future dystopian American society where books are outlawed and “firemen” are charged with burning any that are found.
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