bradbury on censorship
June 4th, 2007 | Published in books, culture, publishing, reading, writing | 3 Comments
Ray Bradbury says, “We’ve never had censorship in this country.” (via Father Inch)
Not only that, but Bradbury is saying that Fahrenheit 451 has been misinterpreted:
Bradbury has decided to make news about the writing of his iconographic work and what he really meant. Fahrenheit 451 is not, he says firmly, a story about government censorship. Nor was it a response to Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose investigations had already instilled fear and stifled the creativity of thousands.
This, despite the fact that reviews, critiques and essays over the decades say that is precisely what it is all about. Even Bradbury’s authorized biographer, Sam Weller, in The Bradbury Chronicles, refers to Fahrenheit 451 as a book about censorship.
Bradbury, a man living in the creative and industrial center of reality TV and one-hour dramas, says it is, in fact, a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature.
So there! Now, turn off your tv and make the man proud.
June 5th, 2007at 9:56 am(#)
livro dele. Na verdade, o livro não fala sobre censura, fala sobre os efeitos da televisão sobre as pessoas e como ela causaria o fim dos livros. Vou ler o livro de novo… Clique no link abaixo para o vÃdeo del falando sobre o assunto. via: Fade theory
June 4th, 2007at 8:07 pm(#)
Gulp.
June 4th, 2007at 8:18 pm(#)
And thus another example of the intentional fallacy. It’s true that an author’s intended point in telling a story is of some consequence. But any reading that a person gives a story, if that person can support his or her reading from within the story, is just as valid as the author’s intent.
Unless my college lit profs at SUNY Stony Brook from about 1977-1981 were actually full of crap.
Stephen Tiano
http://www.tianodesign.com/blog