Editing Eduard Limonov (section)

=== Moving to the USA ===
After the initial amazement, the two realize that life in the new world is not as easy as they dreamed of and success is not so close at hand, despite being able to be admitted into some of the "good salons" using contacts with Russian exiles. living in New York. Thanks to the good offices of Brik, Tatjana frequent the house of the spouses where the jet set of the metropolis meets. Tanja is admired and complimented, but she doesn't get a model contract. They meet the famous poet in exile Iosif Brodskij, who directs Eduard to Russkoe Delo, a newspaper for Russians in America, and is hired there, but the job consists in translating articles from English into Russian.

The dissident scientist Andrei Sakharov receives the Nobel Prize, and Limonov, who has a very negative opinion on dissidents, writes a vitriolic article which he sends to various newspapers. Somehow it arrives in Moscow, and is published in Komsomolskaya Pravda. The chief editor of Russkoe Delo summons him and accuses him of being a spy for the KGB and Eduard loses his job. For her part, Tanja, deluded that she can become a popular model, quickly becomes the lover of a top-notch photographer, ending up leaving Eduard who has a psychological breakdown due to shock.

From this moment on, Limonov begins a descent to the lower rungs of the social ladder, living like a tramp looking for affection. In this tragic moment of his existence, he begins to have homosexual relations, especially with African-American stragglers. By now he hates American society and regrets having abandoned his native country which he instead continues to admire, but at the same time he knows well that those who leave the Soviet Union can no longer return there.

In his homosexual wanderings he meets a former Russian dancer, Gennady Smakov, who introduces him again to the cultural world of the exiles. At an evening in a beautiful loft he begins to court Jenny, managing to quickly become her boyfriend, but later discovering that she was the maid of a billionaire, Steven, who spends a few days from time to time at his villa in New York. After being left by the girl, Eduard manages to get hired as a butler in Steven's house, while she moves to California and marries another man.

Financially settled again, Limonov feels frustrated and humiliated by the new job, which he also performs competently and efficiently, having various violent desires, including those to kill all the participants in the evenings organized by Steven. After receiving countless rejections to the publication of his book, which he titled Io, Edička, when he has lost hope, he receives the news that someone has sent his manuscript to a famous French publisher, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, who has decided to publish it under the provocative title "The Russian poet prefers big blacks".