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Đuro Sudeta

Apr 10, 1903 - Apr 30, 1927(24)

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Đuro Sudeta or Sanja Sudeta?

Born in Stara Ploščica in 1903, Đuro Sudeta often signed his letters as Sanja.

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After finishing elementary school in his native village, Đuro went to further education at Zagreb's lower secondary school in the same year that the First World War began. Since he has no means for education, Đuro lives an extremely poor life, surviving on a poor diet and living in damp basement apartments.

These unfavorable living conditions lead to the weakening of Đura's health, and the writer fell ill with tuberculosis in the fourth grade of high school. Tired, sick and hungry, Sudeta was a teacher trainee in the first course who was said to be extremely withdrawn and withdrawn, constantly enveloped in a veil of darkness. Aware of his suffering and anticipating the worst, in his short life he meets the student Katarina Kristić to whom he dedicates several poems in the Slovenian health resort Topolšica, where he stayed from 1925-1926. Not long after, he travels to the Zagreb hospital for an operation that fails, and after passing the professional exam in Križevci, he returns home for the last summer holidays.

At the end of February 1927, the sick Sudeta went to the hospital in Koprivnica, where he died in 1927.

Regardless of Sudeten's life, which was very similar to his "Sudden", in one of his correspondences with his teacher Cecilija Debač, we find "how he thinks that everything is as it should be and that for a change he both falls in love and falls out of love, sometimes he goes to hermitages, and sometimes he flirts too much and maybe sees through the heat, but for him the main thing is feeling, not logic."

With this transcription, Đuro Sudeta proves one thing about the little man - although every pain is the greatest for him, there are also those little bits, those grains of happiness sometimes, somewhere in the middle of the darkest day, which remind us how nice it is to be alive here too - whatever condition found.

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