Montag and the book-lovers, having survived the attack, return to the city with the intention of rebuilding civilisation. The city and its inhabitants are destroyed overnight in a nuclear attack. The firemen stage the capture and killing of another man and proclaim that Montag the traitor has been destroyed. After being forced to burn his own house down, Montag kills Beatty and goes on the run, joining a group of exiled book-lovers who live in hiding, memorising books in an attempt to preserve history and literature. Despite the warnings of his fire chief Beatty, Montag seeks out a retired English professor named Faber and continues his clandestine interest in books. Montag begins stealing and hiding books, to Mildred’s disgust. Montag’s life is upended by a swift series of swift encounters with three women: his free-thinking teenage neighbour Clarisse, who goes missing in suspicious circumstances his intellectually uncurious wife Mildred, who is addicted to television and sleeping pills and an unnamed old woman who Montag witnesses setting herself on fire rather than give up her book collection.
What it’s about: Set in a post-atomic American society in which books are banned, Guy Montag lives as a “fireman”, employed to burn books and the possessions of those who read or harbour them.
In which I review Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury’s 1953 dystopian novel about a post-atomic society in which books are banned.
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