Dlaczego prawo jest „niedostępne wzruszeniu poety”? Wybrani polscy literaci w gronie studentów prawa – historia rozczarowań
Why is the law „inaccessible to the poet’s emotion”? Selected Polish writers among law students – a history of disappointments

Summary/Abstract: Some of the most eminent Polish writers such as Bolesław Leśmian, Czesław Miłosz, Zbigniew Herbert or Witold Gombrowicz studied law for some time or even graduated from it. The article aims to present their attitude to studying law. In particular, the paper shall present the reasons for choosing law studies, memories of student times, flashbacks of lecturers, and their attitude to legal practice (B. Leśmian and W. Gombrowicz). The history of their legal experience is mostly a story of disappointments. Adam Zagajewski wrote that law is “inaccessible to the poet’s melting mood”. The second part of the article tries to look for other than personal predilections explanations of this feature of law. In the conclusion, it is claimed that although poetry and perhaps also literary prose are interested in the field of general cognition in which they resemble the law however the extent of this field lies in the sphere of legal irrelevance.

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