The Uses of Flok the Monkey’s Mischief
The Uses of Flok the Monkey’s Mischief

Summary/Abstract: From 1951 to 1953, fourteen stories were published in the children’s magazine Radost [Joy] about the participation of a monkey called Flok on the partisan side in the National Liberation War of 1941–1945 in the territory of what would become the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (1945–1991). Although the readership had already had plenty of opportunity to learn not only about the “nationwide” uprising, but also the general one against the occupier in numerous works of children’s literature, the inclusion of Flok on the partisan side seemed to give this resistance a new dimension. Flok first appeared in Croatia in 1909 in the children’s magazine Mladi Istranin [The Young Istrian], which was published in Opatija, and was owned and edited by Viktor Car Emin. The magazine was often co-edited by Rikard Katalinić Jeretov (1869–1954). Flok continued to be published when the magazine changed its name to Mladi Hrvat [The Young Croat] on 1 January 1910 and appeared until the last issue in July 1914. Flok, along with the naughty boy Jurić, was certainly the most beloved and popular hero of that magazine. On the following pages we present examples of Croatian versions of stories about Flok published in the magazine Mladi Istranin/Mladi Hrvat from 1909 to 1914, as well as all the instalments of the story of Flok and Tonić published in the magazine Radost in the early 1950s.

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