Escape into the shadows | Novel

In the novel “Escape into the Shadow,” the writer “Farid Abdel Azim” presents many elements of narrative that vary between epistolary literature, autobiography, heterosexual biography, emotional narration, historical presentation, and stream of consciousness. All these elements fuse in the novel, forming a wonderful alloy of fictional literature. As soon as the reader begins reading its beginning, he finds himself at the end, due to the smoothness of the narrative, the magnificence of the style, and the simplicity of the language. When reading the novel “Escape to the Shadow,” we find ourselves knowing very well the “shadow” that the writer means. The meaning seeps into our feelings as we contemplate the role of the individual in history, the ideal individual, adhering to his principles, aspiring to change the world for the better, but his hesitation, fear, and psychological fragility prevent him from achieving his ambitions and desires, so he finds himself a shadow on the margins of the world and history, especially when he sees those loyal to their ideas and principles sacrificing their lives for them or paying a dear price, and so we see. In that novel, our contemporary world and the new generations are seen through the eyes of an individual from the ancient generations who are witnessing history repeating itself, and its major events being repeated with new details. But she always assures him that he is just a shadow, nothing more and nothing less.