86. UNIQUE EXAMPLE OF CAMERA OBSCURA. NO 1. WITH DEDICATION AND DRAWINGS BY TORGNY GREITZ AND LARS GYLLENSTEN.

Wictor, Jan. (Pseudonym for Torgny Greitz and Lars Gyllensten). Camera obscura. Poems by Jan Wictor. A unique copy of this mythological book written by Torgny Greitz and Lars Gyllensten as a drift with the emerging modernism in literature. Albert Bonnier's publisher, Stockholm, 1946. On the half-title page a dedication from the authors: "This book is printed in 1200 copies of which this is No. 1 for Ingmar Flodström - our old friend, the bibliophile etc. from the friends, the poets Lasse Gyllensten - Torgny Greitz." On the back of the half-title page a full-page ink drawing of "TG - 2 pinksit " and on the title page an ink drawing of "L. G. pinx. " 8vo in a red morocco binding with gilt spine text and gilt decoration down th of front cover. Front cover bound. 60 p., (III).
Camera obscura was published by Bonnier's publisher in the fall of 1946 and received a respectable reception from several critics. After some time, however, it was revealed that the whole thing was a hoax, and that the book was a parody of the poetry of the Forties. Behind the author's name hid the medical students Lars Gyllensten and Torgny Greitz, who had written the collection of poems in a few hours during one evening by one selecting 'suitable' words from books and the other putting them together into poems, and then the book was provided with a pretentious Preface. The aim was to expose what they considered to be the obscure and arbitrary language usage of contemporary modernist poetry that was in vogue at the time. Source Wikipedia.