Each neighborhood enabled him to develop the different dimensions of his identities. There were times he shared apartments with different friends and landlords but he also chose to live in solitude before his family joined him from Iran.
Upon his arrival in Paris on 25 May , Shariati's first residence in France was at Kazem Rajavi's apartment, an old acquaintance from Mashhad. Reference : Shari'ati, Soussan. He describes the family as young, educated, Catholic, and French. In those days, I did not have strong religious feelings, I did not think of the other world nor did I have spiritual thoughts. I was deeply with the world and the people of the world. This location serves as a real and fictive address.
Solange became an archetype of perfection and purity but also a mystical figure of unwanted exquisiteness who drowns at sea in Tourville. She also represented that purely mystical genre in Iranian Sufism or Gnosticism that shifts the life of Truth-seeking mortals and puts them on the track of uniting with the Divine.
Collective Works, Vol. Collective Work, Vol. This room had a window to the street, which usually brought in the sound of music, neighbors laughing or quarreling, and the noise of cars instead of light. His neighbor was a friendly African man whom he would frequent.
The landlady was a kind madam who was loud and loquacious. The other was a handsome worldly man. He loved wine, women, and dancing and his nights were like the Thousand and One Nights. His bookshelves were filled with a variety of wine bottles and his agenda was filled with the phone numbers and addresses of women of all human races. The third had neither the religion of the first nor the worldliness of the second.
