fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 tells the story of a bleak and horrific future. Montag, the protagonist, belongs to a strange brigade of firefighters whose mission, paradoxically, is not to put out fires, but to start them to burn books. Because in Montag's country it is strictly forbidden to read. Because reading forces you to think, and in Montag's country thinking is forbidden. Because reading prevents you from being naively happy, and in Montag's country you have to be happy by force...
Tim Hamilton turns into an image the visionary dystopia conceived by Ray Bradbury in the middle of the last century, without knowing it, but perhaps intuiting the validity of a timeless warning.