After a year in the south, he returns to the capital and resumes his studies in philosophy and philology, together with working in the Information and Culture Office, and participating in the magazine “Antartica”, of which he becomes the head of the editorial staff.
In 1945, when he starts teaching literature at the German School in Valparaiso, he is invaded “in torrents by an imaginative army which was not surrealist but expressionist”, according to what he has pointed out.