Echo of memory

In the book, Salah Fadl presents a mixture between his autobiography and the story of the homeland and the cultural circle and societal transformations with a deep, brave, and clear panoramic vision, as reflected in his confessions in several places. The book is a critical reading that takes the form of a professional challenge to the narrative critic to shape his current perspective of himself, linking consciousness and the subconscious to attempt to synthesize disparate elements and to practice the tricks of memory in preservation and forgetting. Salah Fadl says in his book: I knew that our cultural life punishes harshly those who stray from it and that material prosperity or civilizational progress in the West influence it; every Egyptian must endure the harshness of living, the bitterness of struggle, and the misery of possibilities to deserve the title of patient citizen and not be accused of disobedience. And this is still the law of literary penalties in Egypt to this day, as it does not recognize great thinkers and creators who abandon it and prefer a comfortable life; thus, Abdelrahman Badawi, Ehab Shaker, Mustafa Safwan, and others, even those who reached the peak like Zewail, who died with the regret of this denial, were punished, and his desperate efforts in the media to reintegrate him into the national fabric were unsuccessful.