Those three publications were either initiated or taken over in the mid-1970 by
G. Gondinet, who, in join venture with a woman named Fabienne Pichard du Page,
would set up in 1982 Les éditions Pardès, a publishing house which specialised
in esoteric books, and which jumped on the `New Age' bandwagon at the right
time, from a financial standpoint. For years, the catalogue those who were on
their mailing list received every three months stated as a preamble that there
were `passive people' and `active people', the former being those who did not
buy their books.
Those three publications claimed to channel Evola's thought and had as
contributors French translators of J. Evola's books, such as P. Baillet and G.
Gondinet – C. Mutti, and a raft of female writers. `Rebis' was subtitled «
révolution sexuelle et tradition », and advocated a « rightist feminism ».
`Rebis'' editors, who had nothing against homosexuality, were closely, shall we
say intimately, connected with C. Bouchet, a fan of A. Crowley who, from Nantes,
collaborated on it. Various articles of very unequal value on J. Evola were
published in `Totalité', which was reviewed by G. Gondinet and P. Baillet, and
whose preferred topics included Islam, chivalry, `Nazi-Maoism', paganism, and
the `New Right'. B. Marillier, the author of an excellent study on the swastika
(http://www.scribd.com/doc/43549738/Le-Svastika-Petite-Bibliotheque-Des-Symboles\
-par-Bernard-Marillier), was one of the three editors of `Kalki'.
Those three publications were characterised by a total lack of criticism,
whether internal or external, of `traditionalist' sources in general and of J.
Evola's writings in particular.
--- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "G. van der Heide" wrote:
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> In terms of quality and content, how would one evaluate the legacy of the
French Evolian journals such as Totalité, Rebis and Kalki? Rebis is said to deal
with 'sexual politics'; did it include any topics that weren't discussed in
Evola's 'Metafisica del sesso'?
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