Unless magic, sorcery, wizardry, or any of the like exists somewhere in this world - and I can’t say I don’t believe it possible - art is the closest approximation humans in this world have to something that closes the distance between reality and experience. The most similar thing that we muggles have in this reality is art. Magicians can actually look at reality and change it. Magic for Quentin and the other characters is a way of dissolving the distance between mind and reality. The characters search desperately for a calling in various worlds and struggle to feel connected to any of the worlds they adventure in. Using the common fantasy trope of the quest, Grossman has Coldwater wondering what his quest will be and if it will ever find him.
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At the same time, the characters are asking existential questions about the nature of creation and how to find meaning in the empty reality of the world. Grossman’s characters journey to Fillory, which enthralls them the way I was enthralled with Hogwarts. As it turns out, the Fillory series is based in truth: Fillory is real, and the Chatwins ruled over it for some time. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia) is about a group of English orphans, the Chatwins, who stumble upon a portal to a magical land, Fillory, in their aunt’s home during World War I. The fictitious Fillory series (which seems to be loosely based on C.S. Each of the three novels is focused on Quentin Coldwater, a huge fan of a child’s fantasy series about a distant and magical land called Fillory.
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