Kurt Vonnegut, Shape of Stories Vladimir Propp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Propp Vladimir Propp was born on 29 April 1895 in Saint Petersburg to an assimilated Russian family of German descent. His Morphology of the Folktale was published in Russian in 1928. Although it represented a breakthrough in both folkloristics and morphology and influenced Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roland Barthes, it was generally unnoticed in the West until it was translated… Continue reading Kurt Vonnegut, Shape of Stories, plus other storyline classifications