About the book: 2020 / Impudent, absolutely unprincipled and clearly bored with life, Lazar Rekrutov easily gains the passing grade for admission to one of the country's leading universities. He argues endlessly, grimaces, despising all teachers and students. One day, the university administration realizes that this cannot continue and gives Lazar an ultimatum: either he spends the new semester as a teacher of higher mathematics, or he can forget about getting a higher education forever..