Русская сказка

by Vladimir Propp, Владимир Пропп

Translates and contextualizes Vladimir Propps later work The Russian Folktale.

Genres: Nonfiction, Folklore, Fairy Tales, Russia, History, Literary Criticism, Mythology

223 pages

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (Russian: Владимир Яковлевич Пропп; 29 April 1895 – 22 August 1970) was a Soviet formalist scholar who analyzed the basic plot components of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible narrative elements.

Reviews

[Lakmus]

A collection of lectures on the study of fairytales (although Propp insists that skazka is not exactly the same genre as fairytale, structurally speaking), not quite finished - some places are just brief notes about what he wanted to cover. Half of it is history of fairytale studies, mainly in Russia, and some discussion of methodology. The other half is overview of three types of fairytales, mainly focusing on "magic fairytales" - I expect this was mostly a summary of his "Morphology of the magic fairytale".

This is interesting for the methodological discussion, but for focus on the actual fairytale stuff it would be better to read the "Morphology...".

[Jade Ashli Soisson-Thayer]

This has been such a wonderful read and I'm sure I'll go back to it several times as I do more research. An excellent primer for anyone who wants to read Russian Folktales and really understand the importance of those works and the commonality in theme as well as structure to other Russian Folktales one might encounter.

[Innes Verutin]

Классика фольклеристики. Тем кто увлекается - маст.

[S A]

I think that every person who wants to be a writer/screenplay writer/any kind of storyteller must read this book. And to be fair, it's actually called "The Historical Roots of the Wonder Tale" (something like that). The author gives tons of examples from folktales from all over the world (but bases his study primarily on Russian folktales, that's true). It's not an easy read, in my opinion, but it is an exciting and tremendously useful one.

[Mark]

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/a...

[Susana789]

Pre Proppa a iných ruských formalistov mám výraznú slabosť. Miláčik. A ruské rozprávky (aj fantasy) sú kapitola sama o sebe.