Immédiatement

Immédiatement was a literary and political magazine, of Bernanosian and Gaullist inspiration, founded in 1996 by Luc Richard, and published online from 2004 to 2005, when it ceased publication.

History

The magazine Immédiatement, literary and political, appeared in 1996 as a result of a merger between publications linked to Action Française. It was emblematic of a counter-cultural romanticism of literary catholicism. It is inspired by the thoughts of Georges Bernanos, Yevgeny Zamyatin and George Orwell. Its title was taken from a book by Dominique de Roux, a French editor and writer close to the Beat Generation and founder of the Cahiers de l'Herne. It ceased its activity in 2005.

The magazine gave the floor to Michel Houellebecq, on the question of his relationship with Catholicism.

At first, under the leadership of Luc Richard and Sébastien Lapaque, the magazine was very literary. It experienced a crisis marked by the departure of part of the editorial staff in 2001. Then, little by little, its editors, students or high school students, combined a critique of the spectacular and commercial society, largely inspired by Guy Debord. After the departure of Luc Richard, the magazine was taken over by Falk van Gaver. It developed a noted ecologist, anarchist and Christian tendency.

References

• Coulaud, Nicolas (2010). Le sens du combat: une histoire de la revue littéraire et politique Immédiatement. Institut d’Études Politiques de Toulouse.