 He enrolled at the University of Ljubljana, where he studied comparative literature.In the late 1950s, he became one of the initiators, together with Taras Kermauner, of a circle of young Slovene artists and intellectuals who challenged the rigid cultural policies of the Yugoslav Communist regime.In 1957, he became one of the co-editors of the literary journal "Revija 57", the first autonomous journal in Slovenia prior to the Communist takeover in 1945.