Vladimir Propp's Legacy and Narrative Science

The article analyzes the durability of Vladimir Propp's achievements, treating his 'Morphology of the Folktale' not as a rigid scheme, but as a rigorous research program. The author emphasizes that the key value of Propp's method is the epistemological distinction between variable realizations and constant functional relations. Instead of uncritically applying the list of 31 functions to every story, one should draw from Proppian methodological discipline and relational thinking. The text warns against overinterpreting the theory as a universal template for all narratives, while simultaneously pointing to its fundamental importance for later semiotics, narratology, and contemporary generative systems, where structural stability dominates over the substantial identity of characters.