Ray Douglas Bradbury, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and poet, was born August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. He graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938. Although his formal education ended there, he became a "student of life," selling newspapers on L.A. street corners from 1938 to 1942, spending his nights in the public library and his days at the typewriter. He became a full-time writer in 1943, and contributed numerous short stories to periodicals before publishing a collection of them, Dark Carnival, in 1947.
His reputation as a writer of courage and vision was established with the publication of The Martian Chronicles in 1950, which describes the first attempts of Earth people to conquer and colonize Mars, and the unintended consequences. Next came The Illustrated Man and then, in 1953, Fahrenheit 451, which many consider to be Bradbury's masterpiece, a scathing indictment of censorship set in a future world where the written word is forbidden. In an attempt to salvage their history and culture, a group of rebels memorize entire works of literature and philosophy as their books are burned by the totalitarian state. Other works include The October Country, Dandelion Wine, A Medicine for Melancholy, Something Wicked This Way Comes, I Sing the Body Electric!, Quicker Than the Eye, and Driving Blind. In all, Bradbury has published more than thirty books, close to 600 short stories, and numerous poems, essays, and plays. His short stories have appeared in more than 1,000 school curriculum "recommended reading" anthologies.
Ray Bradbury's work has been included in four Best American Short Story collections. He has been awarded the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, the PEN Center USA West Lifetime Achievement Award, among others. In November 2000, the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters was conferred upon Mr. Bradbury at the 2000 National Book Awards Ceremony in New York City.
Ray Bradbury has never confined his vision to the purely literary. He has been nominated for an Academy Award (for his animated film Icarus Montgolfier Wright), and has won an Emmy Award (for his teleplay of The Halloween Tree). He adapted sixty-five of his stories for television's Ray Bradbury Theater. He was the creative consultant on the United States Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. In 1982 he created the interior metaphors for the Spaceship Earth display at Epcot Center, Disney World, and later contributed to the conception of the Orbitron space ride at Euro-Disney, France.
Married since 1947, Mr. Bradbury and his wife Maggie lived in Los Angeles with their numerous cats. Together, they raised four daughters and had eight grandchildren. Sadly, Maggie passed away in November of 2003.
On the occasion of his 80th birthday in August 2000, Bradbury said, "The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. The feeling I have every day is very much the same as it was when I was twelve. In any event, here I am, eighty years old, feeling no different, full of a great sense of joy, and glad for the long life that has been allowed me. I have good plans for the next ten or twenty years, and I hope you'll come along."
The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The classic novel of a post-literate future, 'Fahrenheit 451' stands alongside Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World' as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which over fifty years from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.
毋庸置疑,布雷德伯里是个诗人。 《华氏451》是布雷德伯里的第一个长篇,也是我第一次读到他的长篇。节选两段他其他几个短篇中的文字: “今晚空气里有股时间的味道。他笑了,脑海里转着这么个怪念头。是有这样一个想法。时间闻起来是个什么味儿,是尘土味,是时钟味,还是人...
评分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...
评分因为文笔,一切都被原谅。布拉德伯里真是好呀,让蒙塔格出逃,而遗落的“记忆者”遍布城市外围。 隐喻。观城市和与之一河之隔的城郊,如《北京折叠》中在外围观看翻转中的北京。指向城市文明?惊心动魄,遂想起好友言说,和在宿舍的室友用话语沟通,不如直接发微信。火的点燃总...
评分在打开书页之前,我做好了准备,准备再一次迎接扑面而来的黑暗,准备再一次扎进僵冷死寂的1984。但是我带着一点点惊异与一点点欣喜发现,我错了。《华氏451》不是铁幕,不是了无生机的世界——或者,至少,不全是。虽然整个故事都笼罩在灰暗的颜色当中,但在每一个人物的身上却...
1984>451>Brave New World
评分Harper 还是一如既往地错字连篇
评分I love Clarisse’s words on working and entertaining. They're not just about the world in this novel, but the real 996 world in some country now.
评分在香港轉機的時候書店買來打發時間的,144$貴死啦!其實我看的版本是9780008303693/感覺一般般。。。
评分29/02/2020-07/03/2020 能follow整个故事的来龙去脉,但是因为语言的缘故,有些地方还是读得懵懵懂懂。书本背后的寓意使之成为经典不是没有道理的。想看HBO的翻拍剧。
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