In the intellectual salons of fin-de-siècle Paris, a quiet professor named Henri Bergson dares to challenge the machinery of modern thought. As science reduces life to measurable matter, Bergson discovers "duration"—the flowing, unmeasurable essence of time—and the élan vital, the creative impulse driving all existence. Through lectures that captivate eager crowds and debates that rattle generations of philosophers, he rises to fame even as personal loss and the shadow of war test his convictions. Blending fact and imagination, this novel traces one man's quest to prove that intuition, not analysis, reveals the truth of being—and that life itself is a work of art forever in creation.
