The Brno chapter, however, promptly adopted him into their ranks and in this same year "Travel by Train" appeared in their preeminent publication,Pásmo. He experimented with textual-visual innovation towards cinematographic effect throughout the 1920s and then reoriented his prose towards expressing his Catholic faith. He also authored a trilogy dedicated to the Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Schulz died months before his forty-fourth birthday of heart disease. His grandson, Jáchym Topol, is one of the most famous contemporary Czech writers, and has had several of his novels translated into English.