O pewnych podobieństwach i zasadniczej różnicy w interpretowaniu tekstów prawnych oraz literackich
On Certain Similarities and a Fundamental Difference in the Interpretation of Legal And Literary Texts

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to show that at a certain level of interpretation, both legal texts and literary texts are non-intrinsic – for the purposes of this kind of approximation of the perspective of the analysis of legal and literary texts, I use respectively elements of derivative theory for legal texts and elements of the theory of Susan Sontag and Eric Donald Hirsch for literary texts. Ascribing the feature of non-intrinsicality to legal and literary texts forces one to look at possible “extra-textual sources” allowing for the reconstruction of the meaning of these two types of texts. However, the fundamental difference that determines the possibilities of interpreting legal and literary texts must not be overlooked – the interpretation of legal texts is aimed at unifying their meanings, and the interpretation of literary texts (especially in the spirit of “interpretive anarchism”) may be aimed at multiplying the interpreted meanings.

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