Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp
Les racines historiques du conte merveilleux.
Paris: Gallimard, 1983. Bibliotheque des sciences humaines. First French edition. Translation by Lise Gruel-Apert of "Istoricheskie korni volschebnoi skazki" (Leningrad, 1946). Preface by Daniel Fabre & Jean-Claude Schmitt. 2070249239 xxii/484 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 9", displays light shelfwear, with vertical crease to front cover. Binding is sound. Pages 13 to 22 exhibit light blue pencil markings. Pages are otherwise clean and bright.
Key work by V. Y. Propp (1895-1970), a Soviet philologist, folklorist, professor at Leningrad University. He received worldwide recognition as the founder of the comparative typological method in folklore studies and was one of the creators of modern text theory. Modern structuralists consider V. Y. Propp one of their predecessors.