The antisemitic publicist Alexandru Hodoș designated Cocea's supporters at "Adevărul" and "Cuvântul Liber" with the title of "Shabbos goyim", describing Cocea as a habitual prankster, a renegade of the socialist cause, and a dishonorable man. Cocea served his sentence of one year and a half at Craiova penitentiary, and paid the 10,000 lei fine. He was afterward involved in communist agitation, speaking at PCR rallies in Câmpina (1925), Soroca and Otaci (during the electoral campaign of 1931). The PCR underground's leaders were often Cocea's guests at Frascatti. His modernist supporters did not follow his lead. By 1929, Vinea and "Contimporanul" were toning down their own socialist agenda, cooperating instead with the moderate National Peasants' Party, and even drawing suspicion from the left that they had become sympathetic to fascism. Generally a critic of the National Peasantists, Cocea quit a resurfacing "Facla" in 1930, leaving Vinea in charge (the latter was editor of that newspaper until its 1940 disestablishment). Over the next few years, N. D. Cocea is believed to have been largely inactive in the political press. Instead, he made his return to fiction. In 1931, his novel "Vinul de viață lungă" ("The Wine of a Long Life") was released under contract with Editura Cultura Națională. Its received much acclaim, unmatched by Cocea's later works in the genre, which critics often found unpalatable for their erotic content. Cocea's erotic series includes: "Fecior de slugă" ("The Son of the Servant"), published in 1933 by Cultura Națională; "Pentr-un petec de negreață" ("Over a Black Patch", also known as "Andrei Vaia"), 1934, Alcaly Publishers; and "Nea Nae" ("Uncle Nae"), 1935, Alcaly. During that interval, Cocea was again brought into custody. He was tried and imprisoned for statutory rape, having eloped with the 16-year-old Gina, orphaned daughter of the wealthy National Liberal politico Ion Manolescu-Strunga. The liberties he took in public life, and the provoking nature of his writings, resulted in other disputes with the nationalists, forming part of their larger conservative crusade against "pornography" and the avant-garde.