During the sixties, while he was working as a stage technician in the Prague Puppet Theatre, he managed to publish novels "Do vrabců jako když střelí (Shooting into the Sparrows)" and "Situace (Situations)". Jan Beneš started to write for exile magazine "Svědectví (Testimony)". Book of novels "Disproporce (Disproportion)" was published in 1965, but banned because of his upcoming arrest. His family was expelled from the officer's house because of action B–Bourgeoisie. The family lived in a squat in Prague, close to the river Vltava.