5/22/2023 0 Comments 451° Farenheito by Ray Bradbury![]() ![]() In the basement of Powell Library, he found rows of typewriters, which could be rented for 20 cents an hour. ![]() His house was noisy because of his newborn child, so he looked elsewhere. The author wanted to get started, but he needed more than an idea - he needed a place to write. “Since I’m a library person, having educated myself in the libraries of Los Angeles, all of this concerned me, and the older I got, the more I wanted to write stories about libraries and books,” Bradbury wrote in UCLA Magazine in 2002. The idea of burning books was one that Bradbury was tinkering with for a while after hearing about how Stalin and Hitler burned books. The firefighter eventually becomes disenchanted with his involvement in destroying knowledge and joins a resistance effort to preserve the books. Now comes a new HBO adaptation.īut many who love the story might not know that its beginnings are linked to the basement of UCLA’s Powell Library.įahrenheit’s story centers on a firefighter in a dystopian world, where books are burned to prevent knowledge. There was a British film version in 1966, a play in 1979 and a video game in 1984. Author Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 tells such a powerful story that it never ceases to inspire adaptations. ![]()
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