 For the rest of his life, Kocbek would maintain contacts with the circle around the French magazine "Esprit", with which he felt the strongest intellectual affinity.Throughout his life, Kocbek maintained contacts with several French Christian left thinkers, most notably with the writer Jean-Marie Domenach.After his return to Yugoslavia in 1932, he was transferred from Bjelovar to Varaždin, also in Croatia.