The Magicians (Lev Grossman)
The Magicians is the first volume in a fantasy romance trilogy by American author Lev Grossman , published by Viking Press in 2009 . It tells the story of a young man, Quentin Coldwater, who goes to a magical school in New York. At the beginning, Quentin dreams of a beast that invades a classroom of the magic school.
The novel received critical acclaim. Follow-up novels are The Magician King (2011) and The Magician's Land (2014) . The trilogy is broadcast as a series on Syfy.
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Quentin Coldwater is a Brooklyn high school student attending high school with best friends, James and Julia. He loves the Fillory and Further book series, which features the children of the Chatwin family who discover a Narnia-like land called Fillory. On the day of his interview at Princeton University, he arrives at the magical school of Brakebills, which accepts him as a student after an aptitude test.
It soon becomes clear that magic is incredibly difficult and tedious to learn as each spell has to be varied over and over again, depending on factors like the phase of the moon and the tides. The lessons also include learning many ancient and lost languages and a seemingly endless number of hand positions with which to activate magic. Even so, Quentin and Alice Quinn are able to skip a class by compressing their first year of study. One day during class, an otherworldly horror known as "the beast" invades the brakebills and eats one student before the rest of the students are able to drive him away.
In the third year, students are given a subject that depends on their ability or their magical disposition. Although Quentin cannot be assigned a subject, he and Alice are sorted into the Physical Kids group. The Physical Kids also include Eliot, Josh, and Janet, who are a school year above them. During their fourth year spring semester, they are all sent to Brakebills South in Antarctica, where Quentin and Alice begin a relationship.
After graduation, Quentin and the other Physical Kids spend their days and nights hedonistic amusements. While they are still searching for the purpose of their lives, Quentin's former classmate Penny comes up to them and tells them about journeys between worlds. This is how Quentin discovers that Fillory is real.
The group finds a world of magical wonders in Fillory, and they eventually discover the beast, who turns out to be Martin Chatwin, the eldest child in "Fillory and Further". He sacrificed his humanity in order to be able to stay in the magical world forever, as the two goat gods only allowed humans to stay temporarily. After a brutal fight, Alice sacrifices herself to kill Martin. Penny loses his hands and chooses to stay in an empty city between worlds. A severely injured Quentin remains in the care of a group of centaurs while the others fear he will never wake up from his coma.
When he wakes up many months later, Quentin becomes depressed and disaffected, especially when Jane, the youngest Chatwin, explains to him that he was used to kill the beast. Several attempts were made for this, in which a time reversal played an important role.
Back on Earth, Quentin takes on high-paying non-magical work, killing his time playing video games. One day, Eliot and Janet show up with Julia, who has learned magic, and return to Fillory as kings.
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- ^ The Magician King | Lev Grossman. Retrieved March 30, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Deals: 1/11/2010 . In: PublishersWeekly.com . ( publishersweekly.com [accessed March 30, 2017]).
- ↑ Exclusive: Time Magazine's Lev Grossman on His New Book, The Magicians . In: Flavorwire . August 17, 2009 ( flavorwire.com [accessed March 30, 2017]).