... Meem was amazed at the girl's emotion and her crying for him, while his wife, for whom he was suffering, did not shed a tear for him as she saw him running through the mill. Rather, she was laughing and left him lying on the ground in the street moments ago, and Meem remembered that he had a slight smile. It was on her lips as she told him about the death sentence warning she had read in the red paper. Deep down, he wished that circumstances had given him the opportunity to see this gentle girl who bandaged his wounds and cried for him so that he could marry her instead of his current wife, if marriage was necessary... In the novel The Front, we find ourselves facing a hero from whom all his past, and his name, fades away. Not even a shadow remains of yesterday as it strikes in the strange city without knowing where it is going. The novel is full of symbolism and suspense through its accelerating events, raising a number of urgent questions and thoughts for people in any place and time.

د. يوسف عز الدين عيسى، جمع بين الأدب و العلم في أعلى مستوياتهما، فهو أديب له عالمه الخاص، حصل على جائزة الدولة التقديرية في الأدب وغيرها من الأوسمة الرفيعة. تأثر أدبه بروح العصر فعبر عن الإنسان وحلل النفس البشرية بكل نوازعها وأحلامها وصراعاتها بأسلوب يتأرجح بين الحلم والواقع؛ الخيال والحقيقة.
كسرت رواياته الحاجز التقليدي للرواية العربية فتعدى حدود الزمان و المكان وكان من أوائل رواد الواقعية السحرية.