Under the influence of Josef Florian, he published his first novel, "" (Wandering, 1929), an historical piece set in the time of the Thirty Years' War, then "Služebníci neužiteční" (Roughly: Useless Servants), a novel about Jesuit missionaries in 17th-century Japan, led by Charles Spinola. Only the first part could be published in Czechoslovakia, because Durych was silenced following the Communist coup d'état in 1948. A full four volume edition was published in Rome in 1969. "Bloudění" was translated into English as "Descent of the Idol" and published in the United States in 1936.