About the book: 2000 / Walter Abisch is one of the most original and famous experimental writers in the United States. For his second novel, How German Is It (1980), he received the Faulkner Prize. Abish’s characteristic refined, economical use of language, formal experiments descending to the level of the alphabet, clearly emerge in the collection of short stories “In the Perfect Future” (1975). All works are published in Russia for the first time.