Or at least, that's my hypothesis. It's also impossible to talk about the s without discussion of the Bomb. The future, in many ways, looked desperate.
Concomitant to the Bomb was, of course, the cold war — and clearly that, too, influenced the book. And then, of course, the memory of the Nazis still burned all too bright. So, in brief answer to Everythingsperfect's question, it is possible to see plenty of pessimism in the s and to take the view that it must have had an influence on Bradbury's writing. But I'm hoping that we can also provide a more nuanced vision. My notes create a very one-sided picture — and one that could easily be reversed.
Yes, there were troubles in the s, but in the US in particular, it's more often remembered as a happy, optimistic time. It would be interesting to hear more about that — and also about how that may be reflected in Fahrenheit in the way most citizens are perfectly content to go along with the destruction of world literature provided they have TV, a few creature comforts, some good drugs and aren't troubled too much ….
A popular tagline for the book is "the temperature at which book-paper catches fire, and burns. Books can, however, ignite at temperatures between the s and s, depending on the density and type of paper.
In , Bradbury released a collection of short stories called The Martian Chronicles. The following year, "The Fireman" was published in Galaxy magazine. From there, Bradbury would expand the tale to create Fahrenheit A popular apocryphal story is that Bradbury hammered out Fahrenheit in just over a week. That story is wrong: It was the 25,word "The Fireman" that he wrote in that time period. The author would later refer to the short story as "the first version" of the eventual novel.
But over the years, he would often speak about "The Fireman" and Fahrenheit interchangeably, which has caused some confusion. Bradbury and wife Marguerite McClure had two young children, and he was in need of a quiet place to write but had no money for renting an office.
In a interview , Bradbury said:. So I went and got a bag of dimes. The novel began that day, and nine days later it was finished. But my God, what a place to write that book!
I ran up and down stairs and grabbed books off the shelf to find any kind of quote and ran back down and put it in the novel. The book wrote itself in nine days, because the library told me to do it.
That means he spent about 49 hours writing "The Fireman. Fahrenheit was published on October 19, in the midst of the Second Red Scare , an era from the late s to the end of the s characterized by political and cultural paranoia. Many Americans feared Communist infiltration of their values and communities. Because of the context of its publication, some critics have interpreted Montag's story as a challenge to the censorship and conformity that U.
Senator Joseph McCarthy's witch hunt sparked. Bradbury feared TV would be the death of reading—and perhaps extinguish a crucial part of our collective humanity. Ron Hubbard on May 28, That was a lovely piece of writing you did on that. With admiration, and additional thanks. Yours, Ray Bradbury. So, in addition to being a book lover, a humanitarian, a writer and a poet, Ray Bradbury also had a hand in radio theatre and the original talking books. If you are new to L.
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