Friday, March 28, 2014

When Fahrenheit 451 came to Turkey - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

When Fahrenheit 451 came to Turkey

In his 1966 classic movie based on Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, legendary French director Francois Truffaut describes a world in which the fire department is called in not to extinguish fires, but to burn books wherever they are found. The struggle is between those who desperately seek to preserve books and an authoritarian state hell-bent on destroying all evidence of humanism and free thought.

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