The College of ' Pataphysique publishes since 1950 a quarterly review. The heading of the review changes all the 28 numbers (but always carries in before-title Viridis Candela ).
Each number is generally centered around a research topic or publication of a new work. At the end or the beginning of each delivery, a heading reports the life of the Collège of' Pataphysique (activity of its members, work of the sub-commissions, etc). During the Screening of the College, this last which cannot more have public activity, the review continued to appear under the direction of an organization of replacement the Cymbalum Pataphysicum .
The review of the College discovered and published many news of Alfred Jarry or Julien Torma, and was the first to publish the Professional singer bald person of Eugene Ionesco or work of the Oulipo (organization born within the College), one finds among his contributors the signatures of Boris Vian, Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Queneau, Paul-Emile Victor, Jean Baudrillard, etc
The first series of the review, entitled Books of the College of “Pataphysique , appears of 1950 to 1957. Each publication, in addition to the relatation of the life of the College, the activities of its members contains artistic chronicles and is centered around a topic, generally dependant the work of Alfred Jarry.
The Cahiers published new works of Alphonse Allais (to which number 17-18 is devoted), Guillaume Apollinaire, No5el Arnaud, Antonin Artaud, Paterne Berrichon, André Blavier, Claudine Chonez, Christophe, Arthur Cravan, Charles Cros, Rene Daumal (of which the Traité of Patagrammes in number 16), Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (of which the Serment of the Small Men in the number 24), Leon-Paul Fargue, Franc-Nohain, André Gide, Eugene Ionesco (of which the Professional singer bald person in number 7 and 8-9) max Jacob, James Joyce, François Laloux, Pierre Louÿs, Armen Lubin, Andre Martel, Jean Marvier, German New, Francis Ponge, Jacques Prévert, Raymond Queneau, Arthur Rimbaud (to which number 17-18 is also devoted), Jacques Rigaut, Emile Rossignol, Erik Satie, Anaïs Ségalas, Julien Torma (to which number 7 is devoted), Paul Valéry and Boris Vian (of which the Letter on the wisdom of the Nations in number 11) as well as a considerable number of news of Jarry of which: the Comment to be used for construction practices Machine to explore Time (2), Alcoholic the (8-9), Onésime (20).
The study of the life and the work of the writer mayennais entirely occupies numbers 3-4 (Ubu), 5-6 (literary life at the time Symbolist, César-Antichrist ), 10 (sobrement entitled “Jarry Book”), 15 (on the influence of Rabelais in the work of Jarry, number 13-14 being a study of Rabelais from the pataphysician point of view of), 20 (a complement in the Ubu book), 22-23 (on the references of the Gestes and opinions of Doctor Faustroll, pataphysician ) and 26-27 (celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of died of the author).
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