FALLING

Analysis

Time and Memory in Falling, by Lisa Sainsbury
"It is to the aftermath of World War II and its implications for contemporary children that Belgian writer, Anne Provoost, turns in her challenging novel Falling (1995)."

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Time and Identity in Anne Provoost's Falling, by Alison Evans
In this essay Alison Evans relates the title Falling of the novel by Anne Provoost to Heidegger's notion of inauthentic Dasein. Heideggers idea of 'fallenness' helps us understand Lucas's state as a moral agent.

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Thoughts on Falling, by the author
A while ago, my oldest son Cornelius asked me: 'Mama, if goblins don't exist, then why is there a word for it?'

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The character of Lucas and how it relates to the title, by the author
"I choose Falling as a title because for me this word was the existential sense of loosing innocence, falling into disgrace, wasting opportunities... (and the fallen angels, of course)."

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