After joining the Partisans as a member of the CPS during the war, he continued his post-war work as a publicist and editor. After completing his Ph.D., he became Professor of World Literature at the Department of Comparative Literature. He also acted as an editor of major magazines, and as a publicist. Prior to his doctorate, he devoted his research work to Slovene Modernism and Cankar, focusing later specifically on the issue of the novel and related modern literary trends. Through his teaching and research work, he has significantly shaped the Slovenian literary field.

He once said that the truth called him to the cause. He was something special, strong personality; radical and principled. As a professor, he was impressive, and students remember him in superlatives. He was also a difficult father whom I had to resist. I managed to rebel against such an eminent, strong and charismatic person, and I loved him very much.

We were both Partisans, Ahac and I. After the war, he got into trouble for certain forms of speech and behavior that were not agreeable to the highest echelons of power. He was imprisoned for a while. That is when Ahac reinvented himself through the depth and sharpness of his thought. He was direct and he penetrated the quest to find the meaning of life. Ahac was extraordinary and peculiar, but the new image as an academic is an image of a man of culture we would love to have today, but alas, we do not.

and sociologist Dušan Pirjevec - Ahac, had said a great deal about the current times through his works. Through his own experience and suffering, he reached a distinction between the revolution and the national liberation struggle.

I often wondered why Dušan Pirjevec and I were friends despite the generational difference. The reason was his compassion. He experienced the deepest bottom of humanity and the peaks of human nobility.

Dušan Pirjevec - Ahac was charismatic. Not only was he able to attract listeners, he often reached a level of adoration with his way of thinking.

Dušan Pirjevec - Ahac led me and my colleagues into an examination of what rebellion is. He reminded us that it is a value that must follow the highest ethical criteria and that its reasons must be justified.