451 градус по Фаренгейту (илл. А. Симанчука)

Vy skeptik i realist? Vy uvereny, chto vsë na svete imeet rat͡sionalʹnoe obʺi͡asnenie? Ne speshite otvetitʹ utverditelʹno, esli eshchë ne prochitali roman Rėi͡a Brėdberi "451° po Farengeĭtu".Kazhdai͡a stranit͡sa ėtoĭ knigi zastavit vas snova i snova sprashivatʹ: deĭstvitelʹno li ėto antiutopii͡a, vymysel, plod avtorskoĭ fantazii? Miniati͡urnye naushniki, leti͡ashchie na beshenoĭ skorosti avtomobili, bessmyslennye realiti-shou, nazoĭlivai͡a reklama, rabota na iznos, prigorshni antidepressantov… Povsednevnye detali sovremennogo mira byli opisany semʹ desi͡atiletiĭ nazad s takoĭ tochnostʹi͡u, chto vy nevolʹno poverite v sushchestvovanie mashiny vremeni i nachnete iskatʹ v kazhdoĭ stroke ukazatelʹ povorota, kotoryĭ pomozhet vyrvatʹsi͡a iz bezumnoĭ rutiny. I budet novyĭ mir, i novai͡a zhiznʹ, i novye knigi vstanut na polki bibliotek, i starye slova obretut novyĭ smysl.I vsë-taki - kak Brėdberi uznal?..

Are you a skeptic and a realist? Are you sure that everything in the world has a rational explanation? Don't rush to answer in the affirmative if you haven't read Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 yet.Every page of this book will make you ask over and over again: is this really a dystopia, a fiction, a figment of the author's imagination? Miniature headphones, cars flying at breakneck speed, meaningless reality shows, annoying ads, hard work, handfuls of antidepressants… The everyday details of the modern world were described seven decades ago with such precision that you will involuntarily believe in the existence of a time machine and start looking for a turn signal in each line that will help you escape from the insane routine. And there will be a new world, and a new life, and new books will be on library shelves, and old words will take on a new meaning.And yet- how did Bradbury find out?..