Obscoena Stanisław Trembecki have their own history. Once in the library we came across a modest-looking print, stamped with the “Cimelia” stamp that always arouses the desire to learn more. It bore a very tempting title: Obscoena Stanisław Trembecki published by PIW in 1953, as a supplement to the poet's "Pism wszystkie". Edition - trace, only 200 copies. As a result, in the catalogues of the National Library one can still find information that it was a " non-sale supplement, intended for academics & libraries ".
Obscoena is a collection of four poems and translations attributed Stanisław Trembecki . It seems that they were not published not only during his lifetime, but also many years after his death. Perhaps because, on the one hand, they were too obscene to reach a wider audience. On the other hand, they attacked people who were too well-known and too politically influential for anyone to agree to publish them.
At the same time, Trembecki is a master of the Polish language. As Adam Mickiewicz wrote: "...Trembecki, having found inexhaustible treasures in the Polish language, knew how to manage them generously, but always sensibly. Resurrecting words that had been unjustly neglected, incorporating foreign words from a related language, creating new ones, breaking syntax, using bold expressions and phrases, in a word: an arbitrary but happy power over speech that seems to be proper to him, which if someone wanted to achieve not through talent and learning, but through blind imitation, audacious encroachment, he would contaminate the language and seem strange...".
So, what more do you need to arouse curiosity?
Obscoena was published in an edition of 25 copies and set in the 12-point Firmin Didot font by Adrian Frutger ( cicéro ) & published by Linotype in 1991. The book was printed on 130 g Fabriano Tiepolo cotton paper. The whole is illustrated with illustrations by Bernard Picart and Pierre-Antoine Baudouin.
