In 1917, with a high school diploma, Fijman left for Buenos Aires and entered the university in the department of philosophy and classical philology; is seriously engaged in playing the violin and music theory, studying the ancient Greek and Latin languages. Two years later, he got a job as a French teacher at the girls' gymnasium Liceo de Señoritas de Belgrano, but at the end of 1919 he quit his job and began to wander around the region, leading the lifestyle of a wandering musician, worked as an assistant miller in the Paraguayan province of Chaco and returned to Buenos Aires only in the middle of 1920. Shortly onhis return, Fichman appears at the police station with the words "Soy el Cristo Rojo" (I am the red Christ) and pleading for protection. Soon after his arrest, he was transferred to a psychiatric hospital, where he spent six months from January 17 to July 26, 1921, undergoinga course of electroshock therapy and labor rehabilitation. In subsequent years, Fichman received posthumous recognition as one of the most significant Argentine poets of the past century, a complete collection of his works was published, al poetry collections were republished, and he acquired the fictitious life of a literary character under the name of Samuel Tesler in the novel by his friend Leopoldo Marechal "Adam Buenosayres" (1948) and under the name of Jacobo Filer in the novel "El que tiene sed" by Abelardo Castillo (1985).