2009-08-26 21:33:23
来自: 竹人
Fahrenheit 451的评论
3
I finished 180 pages (roughly) on the 10hr-ish flight back from San Francisco to Beijing; that's the entire novel plus Bradbury's own afterwards and Coda. In terms of pages per minute, this might be a personal record.
But that doesn't mean much; I've read far fewer pages on other flights and came out feeling more filled up.
Why? That's the question I am pondering about, a rather personal one. Closing up on the last page, I can't help comparing this with 1984 (by George Owell). This is odd indeed. In many ways, Bradbury has been far more precise in predicting what's going to happen -- we are (or will be, as the young Bradbury wrote many years ago) living in a world so compressed by too many conflicting ideas from too many interest groups, to the point of an absolute reversal: burning the books so as to make space for cheap entertainments, which is what all the non-book people want.
And Bradbury carries the ultimate optimism, just like Camu does (my favorite philosopher): the return of hope, characterized by the symbol of Phoenix. Owell, on the other hand, paints a more depressing future, one that is plausible only under -- shall we say -- speculations?
It's like photography -- there is no objective taking of a picture. The picture says something about the taker himself. So here it is, a truth that would be rude if I were 10 years younger: I prefer to read or imagine a world of non-existance (quite possibly because of its very absurdity), so I can find a reason to love this world instead.
Fahrenheit 451的评论
3
I finished 180 pages (roughly) on the 10hr-ish flight back from San Francisco to Beijing; that's the entire novel plus Bradbury's own afterwards and Coda. In terms of pages per minute, this might be a personal record.
But that doesn't mean much; I've read far fewer pages on other flights and came out feeling more filled up.
Why? That's the question I am pondering about, a rather personal one. Closing up on the last page, I can't help comparing this with 1984 (by George Owell). This is odd indeed. In many ways, Bradbury has been far more precise in predicting what's going to happen -- we are (or will be, as the young Bradbury wrote many years ago) living in a world so compressed by too many conflicting ideas from too many interest groups, to the point of an absolute reversal: burning the books so as to make space for cheap entertainments, which is what all the non-book people want.
And Bradbury carries the ultimate optimism, just like Camu does (my favorite philosopher): the return of hope, characterized by the symbol of Phoenix. Owell, on the other hand, paints a more depressing future, one that is plausible only under -- shall we say -- speculations?
It's like photography -- there is no objective taking of a picture. The picture says something about the taker himself. So here it is, a truth that would be rude if I were 10 years younger: I prefer to read or imagine a world of non-existance (quite possibly because of its very absurdity), so I can find a reason to love this world instead.
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作者: Ray Bradbury
isbn: 0345342968
书名: Fahrenheit 451
页数: 208
定价: $6.99
出版社: Ballantine Books
装帧: Mass Market Paperback
出版年: 1987
又名: 华氏451度
2010-08-15 16:47:39 Renee
I think the phoenix is considered a silly creature in the book, for not remembering and thus making the same mistake of burning himself over and over again. Granger thinks they could avoid being a phoenix by keeping the books and past events in their heads and maybe one day they could bury "war" once and for all. But that's just my humble opinion.2010-09-03 23:16:34 matao
An opinion is an opinion, it can never be humble or noble, but yourgrumble is so low, your podium tumbled and your spine crumbled.
To the mislabelled and dislocated book of some derailed and pathetic Americans, Phoenix is a cliche of obnoxious symbolism, and the dire
expectation towards media revolution and the torments of book fetish can never be an pretext of unimaginative imaginations full of
masochistic nostalgia and irrelavent historism.
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