In fact, it's as if Fowles has said "Let's think up a unique experience for an English major" before sitting down to write the book. Throughout Nick's adventure/ordeal Fowles makes sure that he gets to live all of his fantasies. And mystery is indeed what he gets in spadesful.
And in great orientalist fashion Nick looks to the east for the mystery - but the innate provincialism he so desperately fights against allows him to venture only as far as Greece. I needed a new land, a new race, a new language and although I couldn't have put it into words then, I needed a new mystery," ends the first chapter. "I didn't know where I was going, but I knew what I needed. "The Magus" starts in London where our hero and narrator, Nicholas Urfe, a recent graduate of Oxford, is at a loose end, trying to spice up his life. Talking about "The Magus" to someone who hasn't read it is a bit like assuming the role of Conchis, the character who acts as the magician, the master of revels in this novel: what to reveal and what to keep secret so that you give no spoilers, so that the unsuspecting reader gets the same sense of mystification and shock you experienced first time you read it.
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