WHITE MAGIC

In this brilliant new book Lothar Müller describes how paper made its way from China through the Arab world to Europe, where it perm eated everyday life in a variety of formats from the thirteenth century onwards, and how the paper technology revolution of the nine teenth century paved the way for the creation of the modern daily press. His key witnesses are the works of Rabelais and Grimmelshau sen, Balzac and Herman Melville, James Joyce and Paul Valéry.