The magus: A new identity through art

The purpose of this paper is to explore the function of art in John Fowles’s The Magus in relation with existential terminology. It focuses on Fowles’s inseparability of life and art theme and tries to disclose how Nicholas, the protagonist of the novel, is directed towards a process of education through art in order to redefine his notion of self. The study aims to manifest that Nicholas can achieve a higher sense of reality and create his own existence in his search for selfhood or self-realization instead of adhering to his former artificial identity and inauthentic life shaped by the exter... Mehr ...