Typhoid Sufferers | |
Author: | Jure Kaštelan |
Publication Date: | 1950 |
Country: | Yugoslavia |
Original Title: | Tifusari |
Original Title Lang: | sh |
First: | The Cock on the Roof |
Language: | Serbo-Croatian |
Typhoid Sufferers is a poem by Croatian writer Jure Kaštelan. The poem depicts hallucinations of typhoid-affected Yugoslav partisans marching through snow-covered wastelands during World War II.[1]
It was first published in Kaštelan's 1950 book of poems The Cock on the Roof (Pijetao na krovu).[2] In 1963 the poem was adapted into a short animated film of the same title directed by Vatroslav Mimica.[3]