he wrote influential essays on molière, shakespeare, the slovenian poet lili novy and the slovene protestant preacher and pioneer of slovenian literature primož trubar. he was also an admirer of the 19th-century slovene author fran levstik and helped to republish new editions of his works. shortly before his death in 1990, he also contributed to the monograph "histoire et littérature slovènes" ("slovenian history and literature", published by the centre georges pompidou of paris.