"While I still breathe and while I still move I am inseparably bound to that immense procession of which I am a part, and the numberless faces ot the numberless dead are really my forerunners. They journeyed away before me on another railway route.'
A short story by MlROSLAV KRLEZA
Translated from the Croatian and arranged for broadcasting by Dorian Cooke
Read by Kenneth Griffith Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Production by Michael BAKEWELL
Miroslav Krleza was born in Zagreb in 1893. Poet, dramatist, short-story writer, novelist, critic, and satirist, he has for many years been regarded as Yugoslavia's most distinguished man or letters. The Cricket Under the Cascade was written in the mid nineteen-thirties.