1. Utopian/dystopian thinking in 60s fiction
... rhetorical tool, which can make them controversial. A good example of this is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Flamingo, 1993). In the preface, Bradbury himself states: "By this time we were deeply into the McCarthy period. McCarthy had bullied the Army into removing some "tainted" books from the overseas libraries Meanwhile our search for a magazine publisher to print portions of Fahrenheit 451 came to a dead end. No one wanted to ... that of the true concept of utopia; ancient conceptions of the good life or the perfect commonwealth were rooted in the concept of the perfect city. As st...
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