 In prison he wrote his first novel "Moletu-Voleva" or "The insanity for the lust of dollars", a tragic-comic satire, inspired by the personality of one of the jail recluses and his mad pursuit for easy-coming money.The book, published in 1956, received very warm critics and it was considered full of originality and transcendence.In 1957 he also published "Bezana Roja".