About the book: 2001 / In the work that gives the title to this volume, Henry Miller talks about his literary passions, talks about his favorite books and even cites very a voluminous list of them. Miller's tastes may seem paradoxical: the elitist Hamsun and Proust here peacefully coexist with the popular Walter Scott and Rider Haggard - but the writer's argument is all the more interesting. The volume concludes with a biography of Arthur Rimbaud, The Time of Assassins, and several short essays dedicated to Miller's close friends, such as Hans Reichel and Anaïs Nin. Most of Miller's texts included in the book have been translated into Russian for the first time.